German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/160, pp. 20448-20449.
Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen.
The DDG [Digital-Dienste-Gestez] implements the EU’s Digital Services Act: EU-wide internet censorship. The Ampel has decided that for this censorship the Federal Network Agency is responsible and coordinates it. No joke: The officials, who hitherto have regulated the transmission and competition in the gas and electricity network, are also responsible for on-line censorship,
Tabea Rössner (Greens): A lie! Impudent!
instead of, for example, the Federal Justice Ministry.
At the top stands Klaus Müller, former Green minister from Schleswig-Holstein, exactly so as his Green chief, Robert Habeck. Green clique! Yet before the law is at all in effect, Herr Müller openly threatened in January 2024 – cite:
“When I catch anyone the second or third time…then I need to say with all distinctness: The Digital Services Act then has very sharp teeth.”
Britta Haßelmann (Green): That’s
right!
The threat is not a fabrication. Herr Müller or the coordinating office at the Federal Network Agency can impose penalty payments against on-line platforms which do not sufficiently censure.
Britta Haßelmann (Green): Are you
nervous on that account?
Six percent of the worldwide daily revenue, millions of U.S. dollars in penalties – without being imposed by a court. Ergo: The platforms will censor, and the Green coordinating office will therein no doubt give rise to what is to be censured.
Tabea Rössner (Greens): Such idiocy I’ve never
heard!
For a brutal deletion practice by the platforms suffices this danger of penalties in the millions.
Yet the coordinating office may do much more than what a judiciary or police in a state of law may do: Conduct investigations, gather evidence, hear witnesses, examine witnesses, inspect places of business without a court order, seize property up to three days without court authorization. And for support, the coordinating office is allowed to name civil law organizations for so-called trustworthy whistle-blowers [Hinweisgebern] whose indications of censorship [Zensurhinweise] are to be preferably implemented. We all know who that is. Stasi Kahane for laughing no longer sleeps. This army of leftist on-line denouncers shall cull and report disliked opinions, and the data of people of wrong opinion will then be passed on to the BKA [Federal Criminal Office].
Britta Haßelmann (Green): So that
you cannot thereby spread all your hatred!
This law paves the way to a digital police state.
Detlef Müller (SPD-Chemnitz): No
smaller does it get now!
For that, the Ampel now massively arms the BKA. Money is there, but not for the fight against organized criminality, clans or terrorism, but so as to persecute expressions of opinion on the internet. The number of officials in the reporting office shall be increased more than ten times from today’s 39 to 430. And the BKA states on page 64 of the proposal, Herr colleague Mordhorst,
Maximilian Mordhorst (FDP): Preamble, Frau von Storch! That is not the text of the law!
that the test cases [Prüffälle] will increase by more than a hundred times, from 6,000 to around 720,000. The overwhelming majority of test cases will affect blameless citizens who have been denounced by the left-green on-line Stasi.
Who on Facebook insults Habeck’s heat pump is – Schwupp – a test case for the BKA. Hundreds of BKA officials need to occupy themselves with that.
You use this proposal from Brussels for your ideological fight against all and anyone who is not left. The more its backing in the population dwindles, the more the Ampel employs surveillance, intimidation and repression – see the Democracy Promotion Act.
Renate Künst (Greens): You need to
pay attention that the features do not slip!
This state has lost every measure, writes the NZZ [Neue Zürcher Zeitung]. With this coordinating office, it creates a Green species of directed censor officials; and proudly writes, they are completely independent. That means, they are without any democratic control. This censorship monster belongs in no democracy. On that account, all democrats will today reject this attack on our free democratic basic order.
Many thanks.
Irene Mihalic (Greens): What do you
want then?
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