Germany has always been a very procedure-oriented country. This instills a "conscientious thoroughness" in their psyche. Which mostly pays off (for them).

There are options :

- they got this wrong because they don't understand how the net works

- they effectively want to control the communication by setting rules and discouraging decentralisation [https://www.rt.com/news/373706-russia-influence-europe-germa...]

- ???