It is a controversial project that the government was doing in Austria at the moment: the restriction of anonymity on the net. Ultimate hate-posts to criminal law can be better tracked. The plans aim, in addition to the social networks, whose users do not need to identify yet, on newspaper forums.
According to information of this newspaper is to be approved on Wednesday a draft law in the Cabinet, that is, in Austria, the Council of Ministers. Government internally in the Chancellery elaborated a project is running as a “digital goddamn mask of prohibition”: The User can post accordingly, under a Pseudonym, but the platforms need to know the identity of the user and, where appropriate, to law enforcement authorities. According to reports, it would be a registration via mobile phone number.
Among the newspaper forums in the future regulation would have an impact primarily on the government-critical Standard. The discussion platform is the largest in Austria, with up to 40’000 comments of the day. In the editorial, the Initiative has met with a lack of understanding. “Outrage and hate-Postings are not generally in the us, rather in the case of Facebook and Twitter,” says Gerlinde Hinterleitner, Community Manager at the Standard. Although most is not there under the name item and it is not always clear who is behind the Manifestations.
The FPÖ was less enthusiastic
The Plan had been promoted by the conservative ÖVP Chancellor Sebastian Kurz . In the case of the FPÖ it was a little thrilled. The right-wing populists profit for years, their followers in the network which makes anonymous mood. The thought would be made in advance for some of the internal contradiction of FPÖ members of Parliament. However, the Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache was months ago his approval.
Whether the law actually leads to less agitation, is doubtful. A similar Initiative in South Korea, the users identification numbers allocated to, and reduced the number of verbal attacks only temporarily. Then the dam changed vaccinations: they were formulated on a non-ultimate. (Editorial Tamedia)
Created: 08.04.2019, 09:56 PM
