After all the culture-enriching knife carnage in Solingen last month, followed by this month’s antique rifle jihad in Munich, the German Green Party wants to solve the problem of “radicalization” by shutting down Twitter.

There’s no denying that the Internet helps accelerate the transformation of ordinary observant Muslims into raging mujahideen. But the mosques are also well-known as hotbeds of “radicalization” — so why not shut down the mosques? No, of course we can’t do that. It would be racist and Islamophobic. Better to keep everyone off X and Telegram instead.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Junge Freiheit:

Fight against extremism

Green MP Hofreiter threatens to block X

After the bloodbath in Solingen and the attack in Munich, Green Party MP Anton Hofreiter is now calling for censorship measures. A possible option would be a ban on the platform X. He hopes that this will reduce radicalization on the Internet.

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In the wake of the attack in Solingen and the shooting in Munich, the Green Party’s member of the Bundestag, Anton Hofreiter, has called for greater efforts in the fight against extremism. “One of the biggest problems of extremism is online radicalization,” he told the newspapers of the Funke Media Group. This would also include blocking the short message service X.

“We must stop the spread of anti-human and anti-constitutional content on the Internet,” demanded the chairman of the European Affairs Committee in the Bundestag. Violations of the law must be punished consistently. With regard to social networks, this would mean that they would be “blocked if necessary,” said the Green politician. This also includes X, owned by the US entrepreneur Elon Musk.

Hofreiter calls for “virtual agents”

The state, which must act with the utmost severity, must not close itself off to new technologies. Specifically, Hofreiter suggested “virtual agents” that could, for example, scan groups on Telegram to identify possible criminals.

Both platforms, X and Telegram, are accused of not doing enough to combat “hate speech.” Telegram is also accused of failing to cooperate with law enforcement agencies in the fight against drug trafficking, fraud, and child abuse.

Meanwhile, a dispute is raging between X and the EU Commission over the spread of “hate messages and false information.” Brussels plans to impose heavy fines on Musk if he does not moderate content more closely. The American describes himself as an advocate of absolute freedom of expression.

Afterword from the translator:

“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” (Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 10.12.1948)

Among the parties, there is no party more hostile to the constitution than the Greens, and since he and his ilk have been instrumental in bringing all this cultural enriching “Haute Culture” into Germany and Europe, wouldn’t it be more efficient — if they are actually interested in fighting extremism — to declare the Greens, and the rest of these “old system parties” anathema and enemies of the state? The rest could be then swept clean away much more easily.

Also, knife murders have never bothered the Greens before, so why now? Knife murders have always only been considered in terms of possible election results (“Must not benefit the wrong people”). And hate speech by Islamists is not censored on X’s competitors — that would be Islamophobic, now, wouldn’t it? — but the messages of the political competition/opposition to the Greens, their fan clubs CDU-SPD-FDP and the two SED offshoots are. Now their fears have come true: despite censorship and range restrictions on Facebook & Co., election results have been achieved that finally “surround the old parties with reality”. And immediately there are calls for censorship of the last mass medium that allows freedom of expression.

Anyway, it is certainty that mosques in Germany will teach people how to set up a VPN so that they can still use X and Telegram and turning off X and Telegram is more likely done to keep information away from the German people that could unsettle and subsequently unseat THEM.