Beatrix von Storch, March 21, 2024, Internet Censorship

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/160, pp. 20448-20449. Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen. The DDG [Digital-Dienste-Gestez] implements the EU’s Digital Services Act: EU-wide internet censorship. The Ampel has decided that for this censorship the Federal Network Agency is responsible and coordinates it. No joke: The officials, who hitherto have regulated the transmission and competition in the gas …

Bernhard Zimniok, February 7, 2024, Digital Services Act

European Parliament, Straßburg, P9 CRE PROV (2024) 02-07(3-183-0000). Herr President. During Corona we clearly saw how divergent opinions were defamed by the mainstream as hate and incitement and were rigorously censored in the social media. That these opinions then later proved in large part to be correct – one need only think of the ostensible …

Tobias Peterka, December 15, 2023, EU Digital Services Act

AfD Kompakt, December 15, 2023. The AfD delegation in the German Bundestag is worried about the attempt of the EU Commission to still further restrict freedom of opinion and information in the social networks. Each citizen has the right to freely express and spread his opinion and, unhindered, to inform himself from generally accessible sources. …

Barbara Lenk, July 6, 2023, Artificial Intelligence

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/115, p. 14257. Right honorable Frau President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen. Valued colleagues. We today discuss a motion of the Linke delegation for the debate on the EU legislation for generative artificial intelligence. As usual, the Linke’s petitioners hunt after the phantom of an alleged discrimination by means of algorithms. As …

Marcus Buchheit, July 11, 2023, European Semiconductor Industry

AfD Kompakt, July 11, 2023. So that the European Chips Law does not become the next flop of megalomaniac EU policy, the EU should respect the subsidiarity principle and leave industrial policy in the hands of the national states. Semiconductor manufacturing is a key industry. Yet the promotion of same is empirically far better boosted …

Tobias Peterka, April 21, 2023, Data Mining

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/98, pp. 11855-11856. Frau President. Right honorable colleagues. Data are the essential currency of the digital age. This platitude is meanwhile – we have heard it – even overtaken by the Linke. In regards today’s data track which oneself each time again lays down and by means of which one is coordinated …

Barbara Lenk, January 27, 2023, Digital Identity

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/83, pp. 9934-9935. Frau President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen. Valued colleagues. The Union demands in the motion put forward that secure digital identities be introduced in Germany as soon as possible, a proposal which indeed over ten years ago was started, yet was only half-heartedly implemented. Already in November 2010 was …

Gereon Bollmann, September 29, 2022, Data Storage and Child Abuse

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/57, pp. 6274-6275. Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen. I think the course so far of the debate indicates that we all might be very well agreed on at least one point: That the sexualized violence against children is one of the most horrific of crimes. Actually, that is fairly clear. And that …

Joana Cotar, September 6, 2022, Digital Deutschland

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/49, pp. 5280-5281. Frau President. Valued colleagues. All real property owners could just recently confirm how good digitalization is in Germany as they attempted, reporting by Elster, to fill out the questionnaire for the new property tax.              Detlef Müller (SPD-Chemnitz): No problem! Half an hour! The result: The program went directly …

Jörn König, April 27, 2022, Digitalization and Taxation

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/30, pp. 2686-2687. Right honorable Frau President. Dear spectators. The CDU/CSU with a motion wants to make transparent the digitalization costs of tax law proposals.             Sebastian Brehm (CDU/CSU): Correct! We share this goal.             Johannes Steiniger (CDU/CSU): Very good! We find however that the Union cannot credibly represent these concerns.             …