An attack on the freedom of expression? The CDU leader wants to talk about freedom of speech rules the Internet. A Shitstorm is coming after you.
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CDU-Boss triggers debate over media rules
Actually, the CDU-Chairman Annegret Kramp had-Karrenbauer on the Monday after the European elections at the press conference of her party in Berlin, as always, in the last few weeks: cool and businesslike, willing to admit mistakes loss of votes to the bitter. But then this sentence, which showed how tense the nerves are also in the case of the woman who leads the conservative party in Germany since the autumn of last year came. Since it was mentioned on the Video of the YouTubers Rezo (“destruction of the CDU”), which had in the week before the election, for so much eddy and about ten million times was clicked.
There are “rules” in the expression?
Open the YouTube Star had not called therein to vote for the CDU because of their failure in the area of climate protection and with the digitization. Plenty of thin-skinned, the CDU leader said now: “What’s going on would actually be in this country when a series of, say, 70 newspaper editors had declared two days before the election, we will make a joint call: Selects not the CDU and the SPD, please?” That would have been doing “clear opinion before the election”. The question was, “what rules from the analog area, and which rules actually apply to the digital realm?”
The CDU made her nervous: YouTuber Rezo
SPD: “This is absurd!”
Has called on the CDU Boss in order to censor the social media, YouTube, the Internet? On Twitter, a Shitstorm broke loose against the CDU-Chairman. And also in the policy. SPD-Secretary-General Lars Klingbeil about said: “This is absurd. Nobody would get upset if an actor or an athlete makes a choice recommendation. If Mrs Kramp-plant karrenbauer now seriously, somehow the law against YouTuber to proceed, it will not be to do with my party for sure. FDP-Chef Lindner tweeted, Kramp-Karrenbauer was considering, apparently, the regulation of expressions of opinion before the elections: “I can hardly believe it. We need, on the contrary, more open debates, also in Social media.”
Even within the ranks of the CDU earned-Chairman of opposition. Thus, in North Rhine-Westphalia, the CDU said the Prime Minister, Armin Laschet on the “Global Media Forum, the DW in Bonn: “Whether we like it, what Tuber says a You-or not, that is freedom of expression.” And in an Interview with DW editor-in-chief Ines Pohl, he added later: “this is not journalism, it is opinion and expression. And expression knows no regulation.”
Media experts: “A law only for the Influencer would be unconstitutional!”
The media and legal experts see it that way. Simon Assion, a lawyer and specialist in media law, the DW said: “A law that would prohibit Influencers to Express a certain political opinion would be definitely unconstitutional. First and foremost, the freedom of Youtubers or Influencers will be represented by the political positions of their freedom of expression protected.” The separation, the Kramp-Karrenbauer suggest between analog and digital was not there legally. “It is, legally speaking, whether it is disseminated a Statement on a marketplace or whether you are doing the on the Internet.”
Serious allegations also of the climate movement
Even before the European election, the CDU had its problems with the social media. First, the party leadership decided to respond with a Video on the fierce criticism of the YouTubers Rezo, but then the idea was discarded, and the Internet Star to the CDU invited. And also with the young climate movement “Fridays-for-Future” clashed with the Union repeatedly. Ironically, Laschet, the power of now for the YouTuber Rezo strong, had expressed that his party would be better to explain to young people why it could not go in the area of climate protection at a faster pace.
The brought now, once again, the German “Fridays-for-Future”activist Luisa Neubauer on the Plan. “We see that there is a lack at all corners and Ends of political will in the first place.” The accusation, to be youthful, impatient, rejected you. “We align ourselves absolutely in accordance with the scientific evidence,” stressed she.
The Climate Activists Luisa Neubauer (2. vl.) and Greta Thunberg (3. vl.) on a Demo in Berlin
Merkel: “Must be better!”
Always wide the gap between young, web-savvy people and the old people’s parties CDU, CSU and SPD is. In the case of people under the age of 30, the Greens at the European election is by far the strongest party. Their topics of climate protection and digitisation have been addressed by the government parties, little. And also in terms of style and choice of medium are worlds apart between the young people and the parties.
To son-in-law, all of the dispute, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a Person so far, to a great extent. In an Interview, the CNN is broadcasting on Tuesday, said Merkel now, the Greens have been cut due to the topic of climate protection as well in the election. For the CDU the “then, of course, also call, to find better answers to these questions and to say all the things that we feel the goals we have set for ourselves, obliged to be.” But it is precisely this climate goals, 40 percent of climate gases by 2020, save the one who missed Germany grade.