German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 21/89, pp. 10939-10940.
Frau President. ladies and gentlemen.
One aspect so far comes up somewhat short, namely, the activity of the 14 state
media institutions financed from compulsory fees, the duty of which is to secure
the variety of the offerings and of the opinions, to protect the media freedom and
supervise private broadcasters. It should be thought, with that, these institutions
were used to capacity. Yet a couple of days ago we read what these institutions
may still put out. By means of artificial intelligence, they uninterruptedly
rummage through the internet, thus without cause spy on all citizens and pass on
the knowledge thus gained to those of the so-called Constitution Protection
Office, the domestic secret service. And what they thus thereby put out, can be
imagined in one’s darkest thoughts.
With a software which bears the nice name of KIVI, media guardians sift
through the internet. How, what, where, exactly how gathered remains
a secret. We nevertheless know: From 2022 until today, KIVI has identified
nationwide over 130,000 alleged violations of the law. These offenses were
automated and reported to the Federal Criminal Office. Contact data, photos,
audios, videos, data, region, reactions, religious and ideological convictions,
political opinions, data on sexual orientation – these state media institutions
filter all of that from the internet. One needs imagine what is loose there,
ladies and gentlemen.
The good George Orwell once accordingly expressed himself, cite:
“To need live in belief every noise made was heard, every movement
observed.” – Dark words of Orwell from the novel 1984, which meanwhile
are sadly a mournful reality.
The state surveillance apparatus grows and flourishes, ja, it routinely blooms.
The compulsory financed public broadcasting serves in fact the uncontrolled
manipulation of opinion and the propaganda. The state media institutions
on the other side overtake the surveillance on the internet. How precisely
and with which consequences remains in the dark. The intimidation
apparatus unfortunately functions very well in Germany.
And not only that: Free podcasters will in addition be blocked by the state
media institutions intervening for statements thought to be false, and these
are immediately presented or classified as not true. Otherwise in the blather
shows and news bulletins in the state broadcasting at ARD and ZDF:
There, lies and propaganda can be spread unfiltered and unpunished. Never
have I understood that Lanz, Hayali and consorts were requested to contradict
falsehoods with moderation, or keep to the truth. Two different standards!
And that is scarcely communicable [vermittelbar], ladies and gentlemen.
Freedom of opinion ends there where the over-reaching state begins, and there
we are already too far. The state media institutions make themselves a part of
this apparatus for accomplices and for a Zenzurpparat. They all know as of
September Leif-Erik Holm in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and our friend Uli
Siegmund in Sachsen-Anhalt will clean up and this construct will be brought to
a collapse. For that, we work dawn to dusk, ladies and gentlemen.
Many thanks.
[trans: tem]
