AfD Kompakt, January 25, 2021
Poland’s advance against the notorious “deplatforming” is really exemplary. While as before in Germany, content normally not criminal-relevant falls victim to deletion troops – often composed of student assistants without legal knowledge – Poland now puts an end to the deletion orgies.
In the view of the Polish government, they are evidently “censorship”. In the Polish legal situation, a posting is in fact only culpable if a court has definitely established culpability. The legislators in Warsaw hold everything else to be an infringement of freedom of opinion and thus unworthy of a democratic state.
We demand that a grievance system according to the Polish example be firmly established in Germany. The citizens must have the opportunity to re-establish their illegally and arbitrarily deleted postings and to annul blockings – for which the social media concerns should be liable.
Unfortunately, the Federal government has gone another way, for with the NetzDG arbitrary deletion orgies were directly stimulated in the social media. And that, even though criminal offenses like libel, assertion of false matters of fact, and popular incitement already prior to the NetzDG have been prosecuted by the Justice Ministry and, assuming culpable relevance, have been deleted.
Thus, for freedom on the internet, the best way is the Polish, not the Federal German. Against this background, many of the old party politicians really should now spare themselves from shaking a finger at the Poles.
[trans: tem]
