A boycott call! We haven't had anything like that in a while. Except for halal meat or Tchibo-Bömmel. Now we have a boycott call on the GEZ issue. “What’s wrong” we asked ourselves. And also our advisors from GGR Rechtsanwälte.
The Anonymous.Kollektiv [ 1 ] once again delves into a crude theory, this time the GEZ. This refers to the ARD / ZDF / Deutschlandradio contribution service.
The interested reader is asked to boycott the GEZ, but please share the post first. The reason for the boycott and the aim it pursues are also stated immediately. How to read:
Not a day goes by without people blaming people against Russia on public television.
We are tired of the old wives' tales and war propaganda that we are fed every day being financed with citizens' broadcasting fees. A boycott only achieves something if it significantly hurts the boycotting institution GEZ financially. With this collective payment boycott, we are causing a gigantic administrative burden and thus bringing the GEZ to total collapse from within.
What follows is an allegedly legally verified sample letter to the contribution service. But the whole thing is actually just an old soup that has been re-boiled [ 2 ]. The collective already spread this nonsense in 2014.
But that doesn’t make things better or “truer.”
Yes, if everyone wrote a letter to the contribution service, baskets of mail would arrive there. The broadcasting fee is enshrined in law, you can find that stupid, but it's no use as long as the law isn't changed, we'll have to pay it unless we're somehow exempted from it, but it's not possible to free yourself.
What should happen if the fees are not paid and a letter is received by the contribution office? A GIANT ADMINISTRATIVE EFFORT! – but certainly.
Folding, punching, filing – huge…
The computer does the rest. He checks whether payment has been made, he sends out the reminders (they may even be put into the envelopes automatically) and he informs the debt collection department - there isn't much in the way of administrative work.
The recent events surrounding Ms. von Storch and the seizure of her account should show anyone with a reasonably intact mind that simply not paying doesn't help. There was also the case from Chemnitz when a woman was taken into custody because she didn't do her part, but of course whoever takes part in the boycott is on the safe side and nothing more than going to court and getting justice can happen.
But of course you can't blame the collective for intentionally misleading its readers and even getting them into financial difficulties; it only means well.
But the collective is actually doing nothing other than what it accuses the broadcasters of doing, just the other way around. In the eyes of the collective, the broadcasters are doing “Western propaganda” and the collective is doing “Eastern propaganda”.
Wouldn't it be simply wonderful if there was someone who gave us users the opportunity to provide us with objective and unbiased information so that we can really form an independent opinion? And (yes, I know “and” at the beginning of the sentence, how can you? – well I can) And no, just because someone says they are informed and objective, it doesn’t mean that it happens that way, every message is subjectively colored, But there are certainly journalists who manage to put their own sensitivities aside and write a reasonably open article.
Legal assessment
Tobias Röttger, lawyer for social media law at Gulden Röttger Rechtsanwälte also says:
The request not to pay fees represents a public request for administrative offenses within the meaning of Section 116 of the Administrative Offenses Act. Accordingly, anyone who calls for actions that are threatened with a fine is acting in an administrative offense. This is the case, for example, if you are asked not to pay the GEZ fees, as this constitutes an administrative offense in accordance with Section 12 Paragraph 1 No. 3 in conjunction with Paragraph 2 of the State Broadcasting Fee Treaty, which can be punished with a fine. Tip: If you don't want to risk a fine, you shouldn't follow the request.
The administrative offense can be punished with a fine.
Notes:
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