The Zeitgeist takes a little longer in Germany to succeed. Free-nets survived but they are extremely small inhabited islands in the ocean of the Internet. The users were technically interested persons who communicated via new technologies about technologies as you can often find at the beginning of technological developments, e.g. the wireless transmission or handy-talk. They gave place to moderated discussions amongst citizens. Probably the biggest parts of the applications were advertisements for cinemas, pizza services, public transportation, and social and sports events.
State governments are active as well.
The Federal government is more or less ambiguous. On the one hand they want to augment the use of ICT's and networks by the citizens, on the other hand they are afraid of the erosion of the representative system if the Internet is used for political purposes like interventions in decision making processes by the citizens. Although they are citizen centered, they are owned and dominated by states or cities. Actually discussion groups organized by the political parties, the factions of the German Bundestag, and the Administration of the Bundestag itself draw a lot of interests of the Internet users. Community networks are nearly not existing, what exists is the offer of private or public providers to use their network as new information media.