“Government wants to hide their own total failure with social media dilated maneuvers!”

Vienna (OTS)-“What we experience here is the typical reflex of an overwhelmed and security-political inappropriate government: instead of dealing with the actual problem situation-namely the failure of the authorities, which led to the killing spree in Graz, you can steer with a supposedly ‘strict’ social media age limit from your own political bankrupt Christian Hafenecker, MA on the announcements of government members to stricter age rules on social media platforms.

The free media spokesman continues: “In the future, 13-year-olds should identify themselves with the ID Austria if they want to look at a TikTok video-while the state is not able to record or discontinue dangerous asylum seekers or mentally conspicuous people in good time. This project is a prime example of digital symbol policy that solves nothing but restricts fundamental rights.”

“The hypocrisy that is behind this advance is particularly perfidious: On the one hand, young people want to deny access to social media up to the age of 15 – on the other hand, the same young people at the age of 16 should already be allowed to vote. This prevents first voters from being able to take an image from a wide range of information – opinion formation should apparently only be carried out via government media,” criticizes Hafenecker.

“This is not only contradictory, but deeply undemocratic: the system parties want to secure their power over young voters by eliminating alternative, critical sources of information – freedom formation is systematically suppressed. The unit party fears the political self -determination of young people – that is why critical content is to be censored and replaced by filtered childcare measures,” said the freedom spokesman further.

“Especially from a free perspective, it is clear: Children and adolescents need protection-but not through the occasion of the event and forced to identify them, but through school media education, parental responsibility and functioning security authorities,” says Hafenecker, who warns in particular against the risk of abuse in the event of a mandatory ID link: “Who creates state access control via ID Austria, lies the basis for a digital monitoring society according to the Chinese model. “

“The real problem is in the Minister Council – not on Instagram,” concludes Hafenecker. “The loser government tries to conceal its blatant failure in security policy with digital sham solutions. We will have a decisive impact on this step towards digital patronization.”