There is an election campaign underway in Germany. It has just been reported that the party of self-proclaimed xenophobes, AfD, is once again scratching at the ten percent mark according to polls. This likely called for a sensational move from some campaigners in the CDU to distract the Bild newspaper-reading simpleton from casting his (swastika) cross for the blue party.
Thomas de Maizière, "We are not Burka-" Federal Interior Minister and blossoming surveillance fanatic has apparently found his topic with which he wants to wrest votes from the far-right parties. In his fanatical fight against the left, he has now banned the internet platform linksunten.indymedia.org. The apartments of three operators in Freiburg and two supporters were searched today, Friday, August 25, and evidence was secured.
The ban could only be implemented by classifying the operators as an association. It should be clear to the Interior Ministry that this is nonsense, but any means seems justified to act against other opinions. It also raises the question of why a portal where anyone can basically write a contribution is being shut down for the articles of its members. Accordingly, Facebook, Twitter, and nearly all other communities would also have to be shut down.
Every day, an unmanageable flood of hate speech spreads on Facebook alone, which only earns the portal the raised finger of the federal government, asking it to please delete the posts. Likewise, well-known hate portals of the radical right, such as Halle Leaks, Anonymousnews, and focus.de, all of which should have known operators, remain untouched. Furthermore, linksunten.indymedia.org has increasingly been used by fake claims of responsibility from the right spectrum with the aim of discrediting the left.
Thus, it is now prohibited under threat of punishment to continue operating linksunten.indymedia.org. This means that the antifascist resistance loses an important tool for communication, which will likely soon shift to other portals or into the Dark Web. This election campaign action is sure to bring a noticeable shift to the right in the German-speaking internet.
Thomas de Maizière, "We are not Burka-" Federal Interior Minister and blossoming surveillance fanatic has apparently found his topic with which he wants to wrest votes from the far-right parties. In his fanatical fight against the left, he has now banned the internet platform linksunten.indymedia.org. The apartments of three operators in Freiburg and two supporters were searched today, Friday, August 25, and evidence was secured.
The ban could only be implemented by classifying the operators as an association. It should be clear to the Interior Ministry that this is nonsense, but any means seems justified to act against other opinions. It also raises the question of why a portal where anyone can basically write a contribution is being shut down for the articles of its members. Accordingly, Facebook, Twitter, and nearly all other communities would also have to be shut down.
Every day, an unmanageable flood of hate speech spreads on Facebook alone, which only earns the portal the raised finger of the federal government, asking it to please delete the posts. Likewise, well-known hate portals of the radical right, such as Halle Leaks, Anonymousnews, and focus.de, all of which should have known operators, remain untouched. Furthermore, linksunten.indymedia.org has increasingly been used by fake claims of responsibility from the right spectrum with the aim of discrediting the left.
Thus, it is now prohibited under threat of punishment to continue operating linksunten.indymedia.org. This means that the antifascist resistance loses an important tool for communication, which will likely soon shift to other portals or into the Dark Web. This election campaign action is sure to bring a noticeable shift to the right in the German-speaking internet.
