This is hardly surprising, if you consider historical context. Concerns about surveillance and privacy in Germany, and to some extent across most of Europe, are one of the few topics where Godwin's Law does not apply.

Really, discussions about surveillance and privacy in Germany are one of the few places where nobody ever makes a comparison to the nazi's? That seems surprising.

I rather meant that such comparisons were made for legitimate reasons and so would not necessarily end the conversation on the assumption that the person resorting to them was just trolling.