Posted on 12/22/2021 3:04:28 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski
In the past few days, German politicians have declared messaging app Telegram a threat to democracy and a hotbed of radicalization. The latest round of attacks on free communication comes after weeks of protests in Germany against the COVID-19 measures. Protests have been mobilized via Telegram and other online community platforms.
Since the beginning of December, the debate about the Telegram app has raged across the German media. Concurrent to the protests news stories – such as from the Tagesschau and Deutsche Welle – framed the platform as a hub for dangerous conspiracies, vaccine misinformation, and the driving force behind the “violent” protests.
This week, the interior minister of Thüringen, George Mair (Social Democrats), endorsed the idea of penalizing Telegram if they fail to remove “harmful” content. He even suggested geoblocking, which would disable the service from certain regions based on IP protocol.
Roland Wöller (Christian Democrat) said he expects more “radicalization” on Telegram if mandatory vaccination plans come into place in Germany. He advised punishing the company behind the app if criminal acts can be traced back to the service.
Officials are also calling for the deanonymization of users on the platform. In case German police open a criminal investigation, real names of the users should be delivered to authorities, Mr. Wöller suggested…
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Using apps was just fine in the 2020 riots.
What changed?
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Funny how they still have no problem with BLM protest organization.
Government approved domestic terrorism?
Commie pushback
don’t get mad
get even
But tweets and instagrams to meet up for free holiday shopping at Louis vuiton is aces?
Since when did protests become a “threat to democracy”?
Telegram is Russian. I doubt if Putin is too worried about threats from very woke German politicians.
Jawohl! You vill comply and ypu vill like it!
Burn the books!
NAZI’s
Get Telgram
Get Signal
Learn them, use them.
Freedom is a threat to FASCISM!!!!
Why? Aren’t they still using Google?
“Aren’t they still using Google?”
Wut?
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