Franziska Heine

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Franziska Heine on June 18, 2009.

Franziska Heine (born August 14, 1979 in Schwerin ) became known in May 2009 as the initiator of an online petition against Internet blocking.

Life

Franziska Heine was born in Schwerin. She studied media design in Weimar . After graduating with a diploma thesis on software for analyzing video recordings made by psychologists of their patients, she worked as a research assistant at the university, worked for eBay and subsequently worked for a telecommunications company. Heine lives in Berlin and is involved in the working group against Internet blocking and censorship . When confronted with politics, she said: “I had to learn to be extremely careful. I noticed very clearly that there were attempts to instrumentalize myself. ”Since September 2017 she has been working at Wikimedia Germany as head of software development.

petition

Franziska Heine at the large demonstration freedom instead of fear .

On April 22, 2009, Franziska Heine submitted the petition to the German Bundestag with the title Internet - No indexing and blocking of Internet sites. The petition was directed in a brief form against the regulation planned by Federal Family Minister Ursula von der Leyen to block Internet content in Germany through the Access Difficulty Act . The proposed law, intended as a measure against the spread of child pornography on the Internet, had triggered heated discussions in advance. Critics, including numerous Internet experts, accused the law of not fighting child pornography, but only covering it up. Instead, it is suitable to hide unpopular network content of all kinds and to introduce creeping censorship, including methods of surveillance by the state. Franziska Heine's petition was activated on May 4th, 2009 on the petitions server of the German Bundestag. After just four days, more than 50,000 citizens had signed the petition. With this she reached the minimum number of subscribers, which is necessary for the petitioner to be heard personally in the petitions committee of the German Bundestag, unusually quickly. At the end of the subscription period, which expired on June 16, 2009, 134,015 supporters had registered. Until then, the petition was the one with the largest number of petitioners in the Federal Republic of Germany. Social networks and microblogging services such as Twitter , where many Internet users were mobilized to sign the petition, played a decisive role in this success . In addition, the petition received a lot of media coverage. On February 22, 2010, the Petitions Committee of the German Bundestag held a public hearing on the petition. The campaign was rated several times as a prime example of democratic action using the Internet.

Web links

Commons : Franziska Heine  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait: Franziska Heine - Heldin der Internetgemeinde ( Memento from July 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), dpa report, aa in Stern from May 8, 2009 (via Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Portrait Franziska Heine: Netzgemeinde celebrates success in the fight against censorship in Computerwoche on May 11, 2009
  3. ↑ Patrick Beuth: The Face of the Internet ( Memento from July 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) in Frankfurter Rundschau from June 18, 2009
  4. ↑ Franziska Heine is the new head of software development. In: Wikimedia Blog. Retrieved September 1, 2017 .
  5. ^ Petition by Franziska Heine on the server of the German Bundestag ( Memento from May 25, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  6. ↑ Franziska Heine for the hearing before the Petitions Committee on February 22, 2010. Working group against Internet blocking and censorship (AK Zensur), February 22, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Heine, Franziska
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German initiator of a petition against internet blocking
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin