Fuck off Google, fuck off Google.
We’ll demonstrate that Kreuzberg is too cool for Google.
and everything is so nice.
I think Kreuzberg has this reputation of being so cool
Fuck off Google, fuck off Google.
And that is, to get Google out.
to protect the essence of the Kreuzberg that we love.
Sergey, on the other hand sees that there’s only one way
Especially for Kreuzberger patriots.
It’s worse to give up.
It's always worth fighting!
Do you think it worth fighting?
to the local shops around here.
That’s why we have to give massive support
that there is still the Kreuzberg vibe.
But I hope that the soul of Kreuzberg doesn’t die,
I hope it will not disappear. Of course there is this fear.
if everything becomes international latte macchiato cafes?
Do you think this will all disappear
dress however because it’s not a pretentious neighbourhood.
You feel comfortable because you can walk around how you want,
and no one pays attention to how you look.
so many different cultures can live together
This is what makes it so attractive,
I think because it’s a hub of different cultures.
What makes Kreuzberg chic for them?
what the company seeks by settling down here.
We could also say that Google is destroying
“The tourist destroys what he seeks by finding it”.
There is this saying
Either they don’t know it or they don’t care about it.
but at the same time they destroy it.
Google wants to use this to make themselves more attractive
where people feel comfortable. Where they can live together.
They want to use the fact that there is a environment growing
They want exactly use this.
A lot of neighbourhoods in Berlin are cool.
Everything in Berlin is cool.
Of course. On the one hand Kreuzberg is cool.
Has Kreuzberg got a specific flair, a coolness factor?
just go by car if don´t walk through the streets.”
“Oh don’t go to Kreuzberg, don’t walk through the streets,
the people dared to come here, but before it was like
that the neighbourhood was getting more attractive,
this was how I noticed
“hey yea… can you help me... where is Oranianstrasse?”
but then you started to hear this
You only heard Turkish, Arabic or German in the streets
Well, I just recognised it, I don’t know…
How did you notice the neighbourhood getting fancier?
Google feels like just the tip of the iceberg.
have been so fast, so drastic.
The gentrification, the changes here that has forced so many out,
feel uneasy about.
But that’s not only what many Kreuzbergers
Like Google is everywhere we turn.
that we are already living in a Google world.
we’ve all had that feeling
Well whether or not they’re our neighbours,
Google should not destroy our community.
But in reality you pay with data which they just take away.
and you are happy.
You believe that you get something for free from Google
where we ask Google to leave our neighbourhood.
This is a protest. A rally against Google
We don’t want a Google world in Berlin Kreuzberg.
We don’t want this for our future.
within the software of the start-ups that will work here.
Their software to collect information
to test it, to impose their tracking devices.
They would use this place to deploy their new technology,
We don’t want this creep here.
your political opinions, your philosophical preferences.
knows your sexual preferences,
Google identifies you and knows what you read,
they should talk to us.
That’s why our wish is if some of our neighbours are insecure
we got really positive feedback.
When we talked to the neighbours and explained our concept
We followed the protests.
Can you understand you are not welcome here?
and work in China with authoritarian governments.
you are co-financed by the CIA
You collect massive data and work with governments,
and they think you are part of this monitoring industry.
who are victims of surveillance and state repression
There are a lot of leftist activists
There are a lot of people who don’t think you fit in Kreuzberg.
when I raised the company’s involvement with the CIA.
But Barnett didn’t even flinch
to develop mass surveillance programmes.
thanks to NSA and CIA investment
His work alleges that Google was founded
has told a much more sinister story of Google’s beginnings.
But investigative journalist Nafeez Ahmed
Sounds romantic.
So Google wants to support the new generation.
and they became successful.
founded the company 18 years ago in a garage
The two founders of Google Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Why are we doing this?
to put these concerns to him.
We tracked down the head of Google’s Berlin campus
even if you don’t have an account.
They are looking at all you are doing,
This is what they are doing. They are looking at everybody.
Well it’s the same with Google.
you would kick them out of your building right?
is listening to your kids when they sleep,
is looking through the keyhole, is looking through the window,
everybody’s mail in the mailbox,
and you know this person is looking at
If in your building somebody would move in
isn’t the only issue.
But Google’s role in threatening the social fabric of Kreuzberg
which offer apartments and commercial space in the immediate area.
Google becomes a speculation factor for the real estate companies
increase in the immediate area around it.
especially the prices for apartments and commercial spaces
that the value of housing close to Google Campus increases,
they are pouring fuel on to the fire simply by the fact
But in the overall context of gentrification in Kreuzberg
we don’t gentrify, we don’t take away living space.
they just shrug their shoulders and say they can’t do anything,
one which is becoming extremely gentrified,
With Google moving in to the middle of a residential area,
for property speculators.
Activists say their presence is yet another magnet
Google is the latest mega-corporation setting up here.
by Berliners on low incomes.
Homes that were previously available to rent
so that they could sell off the homes for millions in profit.
to bribe their way out of housing regulations
They were accused of using their billions
Goldman Sachs.
One of those is one of America’s biggest banking firms
to buy up the cheap homes.
A wave of property speculators have since flooded the city
and made rents soar.
his fire sale shrank the public housing stock
qualify for social housing,
Bearing in mind that half of Berlin’s population
and that is thanks partly to Mr Wowereit.
Poor? Well, yes many people are struggling here,
This is the man who dubbed Berlin the poor but sexy city.
publicly owned apartments at dirt cheap prices.
Klaus Wowereit sold off a third of the city’s
It’s a crisis that began when former Mayor,
Berlin is facing a massive housing shortfall.