Fri Dec 17, 2021 – 12:42 pm ESTFri Dec 17, 2021 – 12:48 pm EST ANALYSIS
BERLIN (LifeSiteNews) — A messaging service app popular with those who oppose COVID lockdowns and vaccine mandates has come under attack from German politicians who have accused the service of hosting content that is “indecent” and even “criminal.
“The state has to act quickly against Telegram,” said Georg Maier, the interior minister of the German state of Thuringia on Tuesday, adding that the platform must take action against hate speech.
“If it does not do so, sanctions such as fines must follow.”
These comments came in reaction to reports of alleged violence at anti-COVID-restriction-protests, which are often organized on Telegram groups.
Additionally, mainstream German TV channel ZDF has alleged that a Telegram chat called “Dresden Offlinevernetzung” (Dresden offline network) contained death threats and details of a plot to assassinate Saxony’s interior minister, Michael Kretschmer. The case is currently under investigation by the German police.
Since then, a number of German politicians and government officials have threatened to take action against it, including Marco Buschmann, the new German justice minister.
Buschmann took to Twitter this week, only a few days after
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