According to the request of Constitutional lawyer Andreas Voßkuhle He receives support from state politicians to introduce a real name requirement on the Internet. Such an obligation could civilize the culture of discourse online, said the Bavarian Digital Minister Fabian Mehring (Free Voters). Daily Mirror. Berlin’s Justice Senator Felor Badenberg (CDU) spoke in the newspaper in favor of an “open-ended but targeted debate” about a real name requirement.
Mehring argued that the right to freedom of expression does not include the right to anonymity. “You have to stand by your statements, both analogue and digital.” What is criminal at the regulars’ table must also be punishable on the Internet. “Anyone who knows that their actions will not have consequences will behave more responsibly,” said the politician.
Voßkuhle believes that duty is constitutional
The Berlin Senator for Justice told the newspaper that “the increasing disinhibition of anonymized expressions of opinion on the Internet” was causing her great concern. Insults and threats are no longer a fringe phenomenon, but rather “shape the digital discourse to some extent.” The state must be able to fulfill its protective function better, demanded Badenberg. At the same time, she also held the platforms accountable.
Previously, the former President of the Federal Constitutional Court Voßkuhle Daily Mirror
called for the introduction of a real name requirement To prevent hate and hate speech online. This is not entirely easy, but it is “constitutionally permissible.”
In this way, public discussions on the Internet could be detoxified, said Voßkuhle. Society cannot endure the “brutality on the internet” in the long term. However, it must still be possible to criticize the government.
