Left-wing extremism on the Internet
Various government agencies and publications in the Federal Republic of Germany have issued assessments of left-wing extremism on the Internet , that is, of the dissemination of content that they summarize under the normative term of left-wing extremism , which is widely used in administrative practice by internal authorities , or as instruments for organizing and publicizing as left-wing extremist View categorized individuals and groups.
Germany
According to Stefan Scholz, around 620 left-wing extremist websites were known in 2002 . As the first major data network that is used by left-wing extremists, among others, the Constitutional Protection of Hesse is the SpinnenNetz, which is said to have been founded in 1991 by autonomists from Mainz and Wiesbaden.
The article left-wing extremism on the Internet by Thomas Barisic and Arndt Reinhard on a publication by the German Federal Ministry of the Interior in 2004 took up information from an article in the daily newspaper Die Welt by Peter Scherer: He described the SpinnenNetz as an "internal information and management tool in the RAF environment" , which had been disguised as an "info shop" of the anti-fascist action . It was also used for dialogue with the Turkish Devrimci Sol and for contacts with "like-minded people" in the Netherlands, Italy, Great Britain, France and the USA.
The Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia estimated in 2009 that there were around 1,200 “left-wing extremist German-language websites”, the number of which is steadily increasing. It named the Internet portals Indymedia and Nadir, which are also used by left-wing extremists . “Indymedia.linksunten” was banned by the German Federal Ministry of the Interior in August 2017 .
Austria
According to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Fight against Terrorism , the Internet functions as a central medium for internal communication within the scene as well as in order to be able to react quickly to current developments during demonstrations and to undermine or complicate measures taken by the security authorities.
See also
literature
- Thomas Barisic, Arnd Reinhardt: Left-wing extremism on the Internet. In: Extremism in Germany. Appearances and current inventory. Federal Ministry of the Interior, Berlin 2004, pp. 222-252, online ( memento of July 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
- Roland Richter : Links on the Net - The Extreme Left and the Internet. In: Hans-Helmuth Knütter , Stefan Winckler (eds.): Handbook of Left Extremism. The underestimated danger. Stocker, Graz / Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-7020-0968-X , pp. 119–126.
Web links
- Rudolf van Hüllen : Left-wing extremist media (Federal Agency for Political Education), April 16, 2008
Single receipts
- ^ Stefan Scholz: Internet Politics in Germany. On the myth of unregulation (= media & politics. Vol. 25). LIT, Berlin / Hamburg / Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7698-5 , p. 209.
- ^ Constitutional Protection of Hesse: Autonome (December 4, 2003) ( Memento of May 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Thomas Barisic, Arndt Reinhard: Left extremism on the Internet. In: Extremism in Germany. Appearances and current inventory. Federal Ministry of the Interior, Berlin 2004, p. 237.
- ↑ Peter Scherer ( Die Welt , March 5, 1994): RAF stretches “SpinnenNetz” up to Turkey: Computer contacts to terrorists worldwide - was the connection with V-Mann Steinmetz sufficient?
- ^ Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia: Internet and electronic communication ( Memento from April 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed September 12, 2009
- ^ Jörg Diehl: "Linksunten.indymedia": Ministry of the Interior forbids left-wing extremist platform. Spiegel Online , August 25, 2017, accessed September 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Constitutional Protection Report 2016 (PDF; 4 MB) Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Combating Terrorism , 2016, p. 19 , accessed on 7 September 2017 .