5 current election programs in Thuringia have points on this topic.
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Program for the 2024 Thuringia state election
The AfD wants the constitutional ban on censorship applied across the board, explicitly including the internet. It sees growing interference with statements critical of the government online and considers a free internet necessary to protect democracy.
The AfD wants a free internet. No one should suppress opinions there. The German constitution bans censorship. This should apply online too. Children and teenagers should still be protected online.
The AfD rejects not only direct state censorship but also what it calls indirect censorship, which it sees mainly on social media as a result of the Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz (Network Enforcement Act). It wants stronger user rights and protection against arbitrary bans from platforms.
The AfD wants more free speech on the internet. It is against the Network Enforcement Act. This law makes platforms delete certain posts. The AfD calls this censorship. Platforms should not be allowed to ban users for no good reason.
The AfD rejects the EU-imposed obligation to install upload filters, arguing that it restricts smaller providers and weakens free internet culture. It also opposes the EU Commission's plans to scan online chats outside of criminal prosecution.
The AfD is against upload filters. These are programs that check content automatically when it is uploaded. The AfD says this hurts small internet providers. It is also against scanning private chats. Both are EU rules or plans.
The AfD wants to support the use of artificial intelligence in Thuringia's economy and warns against too much regulation. Mid-sized companies should be able to use AI, and universities should receive support for research and development.
The AfD wants to promote artificial intelligence in Thuringia. Artificial intelligence is called AI for short. These are computer programs that learn on their own. Politicians should not regulate AI too strictly. Companies and universities should get support.
The AfD wants to invest heavily so that fast internet is available everywhere in Thuringia without gaps. It sees this as a condition for economic development and jobs outside urban centers.
The AfD wants fast internet in all of Thuringia. It wants to spend a lot of money on this. Villages should be well connected too. This should make jobs in rural areas possible.
The AfD calls for abolishing the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, in German DSGVO). Among its reasons are bureaucratic duties that volunteer-run clubs can hardly meet.
The GDPR is an EU law that protects personal data. The AfD wants to get rid of this law. It says clubs have too much paperwork because of it. Volunteers often cannot manage that.
The AfD wants uniform statewide standards for digital administration so that procedures become simpler and cheaper in the long run. At the same time, government offices should remain reachable in person and without digital tools.
The AfD wants government offices to be reachable online. People should be able to file applications on the internet. All of Thuringia should have the same rules for this. People who do not want to go online should still be able to visit the office.
Program for the 2024 Thuringia state election
The BSW wants to modernize the state administration in staffing, technology and structure and make Thuringia a digital leader. Administrative success is to be measured by permits granted, and leadership posts are to be filled based on competence rather than party membership.
Public offices should become more modern and digital. Thuringia should lead the way. There should still be people to talk to. Offices should help make things possible. Agency bosses should be chosen for their skills. Party membership should not count.
The BSW wants to launch a digitalization drive for small and mid-sized businesses and expand fast internet across Thuringia, including rural areas. It cites a large digital gap, especially in the crafts trades.
The BSW wants fast internet in all of Thuringia. Villages should get it too. All schools should have fast internet. Small companies should get help going digital. This includes training and funding.
Program for the 2024 Thuringia state election
The CDU wants to make Thuringia the most digital German state and to pool responsibility for digitalization within the state administration. People and companies would only have to give their data to the state once, and building applications would be handled digitally through a virtual building authority.
The CDU wants Thuringia to catch up on digital services. People and companies should give their data to the state only once. Building applications should be possible online. Companies should get money for training.
The CDU wants data protection to prevent misuse without hindering what it considers legitimate use of data. At the same time, police and the judiciary are to get more staff and equipment to fight industrial espionage and cyberattacks.
The CDU wants to change data protection. Data should be safe from misuse. But authorities should be able to use data more easily if people agree. Police and courts should be better able to fight attacks from the internet.
The CDU wants to better protect the IT systems of public authorities and critical infrastructure and to set up new state bodies for this. The fight against online crime is also to get more staff. According to the platform, prevention, protection and prosecution should be as possible online as offline.
The CDU wants to better protect the computer systems of public offices. New bodies with experts should be set up for this. A rapid team should fend off attacks from the internet. Police should get more staff to fight online crime.
The CDU wants to bring high-speed internet to even the smallest villages and close gaps in mobile coverage. Build-out by companies themselves would take priority, with the state mainly coordinating. The party counts digital networks among essential public services.
The CDU wants fast internet in every village. Dead zones for cell phones should disappear too. Companies should build the networks themselves first. The state should coordinate the work. Where that is not enough, the state helps towns with funding.
The CDU wants to offer all administrative services digitally, from application to decision, and to present a digital and data strategy for this. Non-digital access is to remain, especially for older people.
The CDU wants government offices to go digital. People should be able to apply online at any time. There should be a Thuringia portal and an app. People who prefer to go to an office can still do so.
Program for the 2024 Thuringia state election
The Left expects digitalization to keep changing work and everyday life. It wants new rules and protections for employees, customers and users of online services.
Computers and the internet change work and daily life. The Left wants new rules for this. The rules should protect workers. They should also protect customers and people who use online services.
The Left sees internet, telephone, and postal delivery as public infrastructure that must be affordable and accessible to everyone. It wants broadband and 5G coverage everywhere and, to that end, a publicly organized Telekom.
The Left wants fast internet for everyone, in every village too. Internet should be affordable. Telekom should be publicly organized. There should be no more dead zones for cell phones.
The Left proposes a subcommittee in the state parliament that would discuss the opportunities, risks, and necessary rules for artificial intelligence together with experts. Thuringia is to regulate AI-generated content and AI-controlled processes by law where needed.
The Left wants a new working group in the state parliament. It should talk about artificial intelligence, or AI. Experts should take part. The group should work out which laws AI needs.
Program for the 2024 Thuringia state election
The SPD wants a fiber-optic network covering the whole state. Private providers are to be supported through advice for municipalities; where the market falls short, the Thüringer Glasfasergesellschaft (state fiber company) is to be funded. Mobile carriers are to be held more firmly to their rollout targets.
The SPD wants fast internet everywhere in Thuringia. That needs fiber networks. Private companies should build first. Where that is not enough, the state helps with money. The networks should belong to towns where possible. Cell phone coverage should also get better.
The SPD wants to curb the power of large platforms and backs non-discriminatory algorithms, free software and open standards. It regards data protection as a fundamental right, but the rules should not place excessive burdens on small and mid-sized businesses.
The SPD wants tighter limits on big internet companies. Computer programs should not treat anyone unfairly. Free software should be used more often. Data protection matters to the SPD. But small firms should not face too much red tape.
The SPD wants to create a cybersecurity center for Thuringia. All state bodies that protect IT systems are to coordinate there in order to better shield the state, businesses and the public from online attacks.
The SPD wants to start a center for cybersecurity. All offices that protect computer systems will work together there. This should reduce harm from attacks over the internet. Agencies should report security gaps to the makers right away.
The SPD wants to fully introduce electronic legal filing and electronic case files in Thuringia. Justice system IT is to get sufficient funding and specialist staff and be protected by a security drive.
Courts should work with digital files. The SPD wants to finish this in Thuringia. There should be enough money and IT experts for it. The data of the courts should be safe.
The SPD wants digital, user-friendly public administration at the state and municipal level. The state is to provide and pay for central online services for municipalities. By 2030, the most important administrative registers are to be modernized as fully as possible.
The SPD wants people to be able to file applications with offices online. The state should give towns the technology for this. Offices should be able to retrieve data from each other. People should be able to see who used their data.
The SPD wants to develop ethical standards for artificial intelligence in government agencies. Decisions made by AI are to be labeled and understandable. Citizens are to get a right to have such decisions reviewed by a human.
Offices should use artificial intelligence only under clear rules. People should be able to tell when a computer made a decision. Everyone should be able to ask a human to check the decision. The SPD wants to create a right to this.