On Youth Day, the JUNOS are calling for a comprehensive strategy against digital radicalization in social media and messenger services. JUNOS clearly rejects a recently discussed federal Trojan.
“Laws are broken and violence and hatred are encouraged on social media like TikTok. TikTok extremists spread dangerous calls and are often at the beginning of a radicalization spiral. A lot of content that radicalizes young people is easily accessible videos,” explains JUNOS federal chairwoman Sophie Wotschke.
In addition to more media competence, Wotschke is calling for tougher action at the Austrian and European level against platforms that do not consistently delete criminally relevant content. According to the federal chairwoman, the country’s cyber departments also need to be massively expanded. “It cannot be the case that political content is throttled while Islamist influencers, for example, can call for violence undisturbed. Extremism must also be consistently combated in the digital space,” Wotschke continued.
Wotschke emphasizes that there are already enough tools to combat this development: “The federal Trojan was already classified as unconstitutional in 2019. There are already enough tools on the table that are unfortunately not used enough. There is a need for a clever strategy against digital radicalization that does not involve a surveillance state and pseudo-measures that restrict the freedom of expression of all young people,” concluded Wotschke.
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