Signalfire
Documentation on popular resistance, armed struggle and communist politics
Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
  • Analysis & Polemic
  • Armed Struggle & Counter Insurgency
  • Disclaimers
  • Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
  • International Communist Movement
  • International Maoism and anti-revisionism
  • NABPP-PC and Prison Movement
  • People’s War & Maoism in Nepal
  • People’s War in India
  • People’s War in Peru
  • Siraj Sikder Archive
  • Women Martyrs of the Indian Revolution
← Philippine insurgency clippings
‘Obraz’ could not organize violence alone →

Germany launches 2.0 fight against Nazis

Posted on October 11, 2010 by mat


Social network platforms in Germany have launched a week-long campaign to battle right-wing extremism on the internet. Facebook has been criticized for not taking part.

The initiative “Social Networks against Nazis” was launched on Monday in Berlin by 20 social networks such as MySpace, Youtube and StudiVZ. The aim is to mobilize users of social networks to join the battle against neo-Nazi ideas on the Web by reporting extremist content.

“Right-wing extremists are part of all social networks in Germany and they are trying to place their hateful, racist and inhuman statements,” a spokesperson for the initiative told reporters. “Nazis try to recruit online, and they have been more subtle than they used to be, which makes it harder to identify them right away.”

German Consumer Affairs Minister Ilse Aigner launched the campaign together with the organizers  the online portal “netz-gegen-nazis”, (“net against Nazis”), the Amadeu-Antonio foundation and the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit.

Aigner said that “enemies of the constitution – right-wing extremists as well as left-wing extremists – should not find a place on these platforms.”  She also encouraged the social networks to make use of their “domestic authority” and use it as a way to get rid of Nazis.

Big player facebook not on board

Since a broad range of social networks are taking part in the week-long campaign, critics have mentioned the fact that the big player in the social networking world – facebook – is not among them.

“We appreciate the initiative “netz-gegen-nazis” and we are looking forward to a cooperation in the future,” a spokesperson for facebook told Deutsche Welle. “But at the moment, our company in Germany is still in its set-up-period.”

Huge amount of data causes problems

One big problem for social networks is the amount of data uploaded to their sites. According to Youtube, 24 hours of video material gets uploaded every minute which makes a pre-screening of all material impossible. But once a video was recognized as containing Nazi content and was taken down, the user cannot upload it again even if he renames it, said Youtube – thanks to a special video recognition software.

Simone Rafael from “netz-gegen-nazis” said right-wing extremists had become cleverer and refrain from posting obvious notes. Instead, they raise a controversial issue such as “death penalty for child abusers” in order to gather people in a group and bring them closer to their ideas.

This entry was posted in state security, technology and tagged frg, germany, low intensity conflict, radical right, surveillance, technocratic social control. Bookmark the permalink.
← Philippine insurgency clippings
‘Obraz’ could not organize violence alone →
  • Anti-Imperialist Organizations

    • ABCF
    • Addameer
    • Arab Red Aid
    • Bayan-USA
    • CCRSRI
    • CGAGPI
    • DSU-JNU
    • Free Georges Ibrahim Abdallah
    • Free Saadat
    • Frente Independente Popular – RJ
    • ICAWPI
    • ICSPWI – Italy
    • India Solidarity-Germany
    • India Solidarity-Sweden
    • INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE TO SUPPORT THE PEOPLE'S WAR IN INDIA
    • International League of Peoples' Struggle
    • International Red Aid
    • Irish Republican Socialist Party
    • Jericho Movement
    • MLKP
    • Network Free All Political Prisoners
    • Parti Communiste du Bénin
    • Party of Labor-Serbia
    • PCRV
    • PFLP
    • Political Prisoners in Peru
    • Prisoner Info
    • Red Action-Croatia
    • Red Aid Switzerland
    • Revolutionary Construction-Switzerland
    • Revolutionary Cultural Front
    • Revolutionary Democratic Front
    • Revolutionary Unity
    • Secours Rouge Belgium
    • SRI
  • Maoist Organizations

    • All India Federation of Labour Unions
    • Análisis y Opinión
    • Andolonpotrika
    • Antigeitonies
    • ATIK
    • Bündnis gegen imperialististische Aggression
    • CARC
    • Cause du Peuple
    • Confederation for Democratic Rights in Europe
    • Democratic Women's Movement
    • El Pueblo
    • Escuela Política Luis Emilio Recabarren
    • FDLP
    • FER Chile
    • Free Margot Liendo
    • Free Osman Morote
    • Gran Marcha Hacia el Comunismo
    • Halkin Gunlugu
    • Initiative RCP (Austria)
    • Kommunistiska Arbetarkommunen
    • Liga dos Camponeses Pobres
    • Liga Operária
    • Maoist Bolshevik Reorganization Movement
    • Maoist Communist Group
    • Maoist Revolutionary League
    • Maoist Road
    • MER-RSM
    • MOVADEF
    • Movimento Estudantil Popular Revolucionário
    • Movimento Feminino Popular
    • Movimento Femminista Proletario Rivoluzionario
    • National Democratic Front of the Philippines
    • New Democratic Women
    • New Democratic Youth
    • Nova Democracia
    • OCFR
    • OCML-VP
    • Organización Maoísta Para la Reconstitución del Partido Comunista de Colombia
    • Partizan
    • Philippine Revolution Web Central
    • Proletarische Revolution Austria
    • Revolutionary Initiative
    • Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
    • Rot Front Kollektiv
    • Servir le Peuple
    • SOL Germany
    • The Next Front
    • Tjen folket
    • UNIÓN OBRERA COMUNISTA (Mlm)
    • Verein der Neuen Demokratie
  • Maoist Parties

    • Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan
    • Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist)
    • Communist Party of Ecuador-Red Sun
    • CPI (Maoist)
    • KKE ML
    • Maoist Communist Party of France
    • Maoist Communist Party of Italy
    • Maoist Communist Party/Turkey-North Kurdistan
    • MCP Manipur
    • Purba Bangla Sarbahara Party-Central Committee
    • RCP Canada
    • TKP/ML
  • Resources

    • Africa in Struggle
    • African Activist Archive Project
    • ANF News
    • Archiv Schwarzer Stern
    • Arm the Spirit Archive
    • Bianet-English
    • Bombard the Headquarters!
    • Camarades
    • CEDEMA
    • Cellules Communistes Combattantes
    • China Labor Bulletin
    • Chuang
    • Communist Working Group Archive
    • Corrispondenza Internazionale
    • CPI (Maoist) Information Bulletin
    • CSPP
    • Daily Cultural Revolution
    • Dazibao Rojo
    • DEM VOLKE DIENEN
    • Dialectical Materialism in China
    • Documents of GP
    • Documents of UFCML
    • Đã Thành Đồ Sơn
    • Early American Marxism
    • El Topo Blindado
    • EROL
    • Farmland Grab
    • Freedom Archives
    • Freilassung
    • Frontier Weekly
    • German Left Poster Archive
    • GPCR Archive
    • IISH Red Army Faction Archive
    • Insurrection News
    • International Red News
    • IRISH REPUBLICAN MARXIST HISTORY PROJECT
    • Israeli Left Archive
    • Isyandan
    • Jinha News
    • L’Internationale
    • Left Russia
    • Liberation Magazine 1967-72
    • MAO Projekt
    • Mao Selected Works
    • Marx to Mao
    • MG documentation
    • ML Translations
    • MLM Mayhem!
    • MLM RSG
    • Naxalbari Magazine
    • New Turkey
    • Other Aspect
    • Palestine Poster Project Archive
    • Paschim Banga Khet Majoor Samity
    • Peking Review
    • Peoples March
    • Peoples Truth
    • PFOC Archive
    • Red News-Lal Shongbad
    • Remembering Lorena Barros
    • Research Unit for Political Economy
    • Resistance & Repression in Greece
    • Revolutionary Democracy
    • Revolutionary Literature Archive
    • Revolutionary Struggle in Italy Archive
    • Rojava Report
    • Ruinas Digitales
    • Samidoun
    • Sanhati
    • SDS Archives
    • sebben he siamo donne
    • Servir ao Povo de Todo Coração
    • Sınıf Teorisi
    • Textos y Documentos del PCP
    • The Workers Dreadnought
    • Throw Out Your Books
    • Turkey Harvest
    • Western Ghats War Front
    • Women Against Sexual Violence and State Repression
    • Works of Charu Mazumdar
    • Works of Siraj Sikder
  • Categories

    • agricultures
    • capital and class
    • conflict within the movement
    • ecological crisis
    • Editor's desk
    • fascist attacks
    • Maoists India
    • news
    • opinion
    • patriarchy
    • prisons
    • privacy
    • resistance
    • state control
    • state security
    • strategy and tactics
    • technology
    • Uncategorized
    • war
    • war on drugs
    • Women Martyrs of The Indian Revolution
  • Recent Posts

    • Letter from your Editor
    • People’s War in India Clippings 11/8/2016
    • Passing of communist activist and union militant Himadri Sen Roy
    • People’s War in India Clippings 8/8/2016
    • People’s War in India Clippings 1/8/2016
    • Brief History of the Armed Communist Formations (FCA)
    • Boycott (World) Social Forum, a Safety Valve for Imperialism
    • ‘Give us Eylem Ataş’s body’
    • People’s War in India Clippings 30/7/2016
    • People’s War in India Clippings 29/7/2016
    • Indian Democracy Unmasked: BJP-RSS and the politics of Communal Hatred-CAFAU
    • Brief history of the Revolutionary Communist Commitee (CoCoRi)
    • People’s War in India Clippings 26/7/2016
    • 12 detained in house raids in Dersim
    • People’s War in India Clippings 24/7/2016
    • People’s War in India Clippings 22/7/2016
    • HBDH: 11 riot police killed in Trabzon
    • Armed wing of Maoist Communist Party eliminates reactionary solder
    • Responsibility claim for the execution of mafioso Habibi in June , Exarhia area – Athens , Greece
    • About the attempted military coup in Turkey KKE (ml)
  • Tags

    • anarchists
    • armed struggle
    • austerity
    • bangladesh
    • chile
    • china
    • counter insurgency
    • ecocide
    • egypt
    • energy
    • france
    • greece
    • history
    • immigration
    • india
    • indonesia
    • international communist movement
    • italy
    • just another police murder
    • kurdistan
    • land tenure
    • low intensity conflict
    • manipur
    • maoism
    • maoist
    • naxal
    • nepal
    • nigeria
    • pakistan
    • palestine
    • peru
    • philippines
    • radical right
    • repression
    • revisionism
    • riot
    • social tension
    • south africa
    • state terror
    • strike
    • tunisia
    • turkey
    • united kingdom
    • united states
    • worker resistance
  • Archives

Signalfire
Proudly powered by WordPress.