I came to check out Microsoft's The Digital Eatery in Berlin, because - you know - free Internet.
And I was already a little embarrassed to turn up for - you know - their free Internet, with my Mac and my iPhone and my iPad and all that. So I found a secluded corner and I politely asked a guy who was sitting alone at a table there if I could join him and he said sure, just he's been tortured for the past 7 days.
And I figured - he's trying to warn me about the Internet quality but no, he was tortured by the government, said it was because of Edward Snowden and that he recognises me from Chechnya or Turkey, except I had a scar then and asked if it is really me. Not if it was really me then, he knows it was me then, he asked if it's really me now. Anyway, the Internet works fine and it's - you know - free... read more