AW: Down Under: Nachhilfe für Seehofer und andere
One cannot ignore the impression that some parts of the web and premium-rate business got corrupted by a kind of obscure economy acting in the shadows.
This kind of "Schattenwirtschaft" takes enormous parts of spending power out of legal economy. And the damage in trust this causes among consumers is almost never estimated, nor is it even considered that there is such a damage.
But these white-collar shadow-men really seem to have a high influence in politics, it seems as if they sit at the same table when laws are phrased. Politicians rather seem to listen to the howling of the coyotes than to objections of consumer associations.
In Germany, there are some phrases having a kind of magic effect. You only have to say some holy words like "business location Germany" or "boost new innovative marketing and media" and all that bosh we hear every day, and politicians really fall to their knees in front of you.
There is a big German party which has an appointee for web business who considered it necessary to visit a known porn-spammer. She did not consider it necessary to make enquiries about that company in advance before she made that untold visit, causing public interest she better had avoided. But these probably are the "new innovative marketing concepts and media" which politicians hope will bring economic growth.
This all, together with regulators who are condemned to watch that daily puppet theatre which premium-rate-gangsters play with them, causes a climate where the best way to make money seems to bee to change the highest amounts of mud your hands can take grip off into even more money.
That´s the way of modern "success".
