German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/206, pp. 25954-25955.
Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen.
If all men except one were of the same
opinion…then all mankind would not…be justified in silencing this one
Cited from John Stuart Mill, with permission of the President.
The global left in league with Big Tech, on the contrary, want to silence any who do not believe in their truth. They hold their opinion to be without alternative, as being the absolute good. Migration, climate change, gender and Europe: Who dares to have another opinion, he is a heretic, an enemy, a climate and Corona denier, a speaker of hate, a racist, a Nazi. And he is absolutely evil, he must be purged and outlawed from every social communication and be socially annihilated, he must cease to exist in the social media; that is the goal of cancel culture and deplatforming.
Behind this stands the spirit of destruction, the union of cultural Marxism with the Big Tech concerns. They have a division of labor: The leftist terror hordes of Anitfa and Black Lives Matter with massive physical violence intimidate political opponents, mob unsuitable scholars from the university, boycott and attack businesses and desecrate memorials, loud and dirty.
Florian
Post (SPD): Ui!
The deletion armies of the Big Tech platforms delete, block and eliminate ranges, make contributions impossible to find so as to destroy competitors, cut off organizations from donors, users, consumers, quick and dirty, without the law, millions of times – a pure arbitrariness.
And their fact checkers are a Ministry of Truth – true being what is left; left is good, right is evil – and this Ministry of Truth is a World Ministry of Truth, a very powerful one. There are principally five concerns which control the internet, the platforms, the payments function, the entire technical infrastructure, world-wide, global. Smartphone operating system: Dominated by two: Google and Apple; social media dominated by two: Facebook and Twitter; video platforms: One, YouTube, thus Google; cloud infrastructure: Three: Amazon, Microsoft, Google; and in regards on-line payments system, in addition, PayPal.
At the press of a button by a handful of Big Tech billionaires, Herren Bezos, Zuckerberg, Dorsey, Pichai and Nadella, can anyone in the world be blocked and digitally erased – and they do it, day after day, millions of times. They are the world’s most powerful men.
A Herr Dorsey could silence the incumbent American President
Trump, and after Trump’s deletion a Herr Bezos pulled the plug on…Parler –
tens of million of users with hundreds of millions of expressions of opinion:
Click, gone, dead.
Markus Kurth (Greens): Gott sei dank!
In the 21st Century, access to the digital public belongs to the basic service like water and electricity. Monopolies may not turn off citizens’ water and electricity because they have a “wrong” opinion. Yet they are doing precisely that, and against that must this government, must this Bundestag proceed. And this is being done. The Polish government once again has shown how to do it.
Tabea Rössner
(Greens): A fine example!
They have put forward a law: What Polish courts have not forbidden may no more be deleted; otherwise, there is a high fine for the concerns. That is the correct way. With us, it is exactly the other way around: Here, censorship will not be penalized but those not censoring will be penalized; that is this government’s NetzDG.
We stand before a change of times: Before our eyes rises a global surveillance state and a quite perfect censorship regime, as never before in the history of mankind. This is digital totalitarianism. Which we must stop – for the citizens’ freedom of opinion, for democracy, against the totalitarianism of Big Tech and against the rule of Silicon Valley.
Many thanks.
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Anke Domscheit-Berg (Linke): That was really quite embarrassing, Frau von Storch.
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