Ruth Moschner about sexual harassment on the net: "I should feel flattered"

She receives offensive photos and news, but Ruth Moschner cannot defend herself.Because Facebook and Co.Do not help the police in the investigation.Now the moderator writes an open letter and explains T-Online the background.

"I'm just getting one down on coke", "I would like to pop you", "I would like to faint for you" - well morning.These are excerpts from news that moderator Ruth Moschner has received on social media.It is not there alone.

Because: It is a painful topic that deals with many women - whether prominently or not - on the net: the so -called "dickpics", i.e. mostly unspeaked photos of genitals as well as offensive turn on or perverse fantasies as direct messages.The moderator has announced this offense the fight.Again and again she draws attention to this on Instagram and divides what many followers send her.They are not cavalier offenses, but crimes.She has already reported some of the news.Unfortunately, this was of no use.

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"I didn't want to send much to my lawyer"

So far she has shown a double -digit number with the authorities."In my opinion, the worst cases are within a certain period of time," said Ruth Moschner to T-Online."Although I also admit honestly, I just wanted and I just wanted to send a lot of dickpics to my lawyer because it was uncomfortable for me to 'put' something else in the mailbox in the mailbox."There were no legal consequences for the news writers, but there are still individual advertisements, explains the 45-year-old.

But why does this form of harassment have no consequences?For a simple reason: one could not determine the sender.Also because Facebook, Instagram and Co.do not publish the data of their users.The planned expansion of the NetzDG should contribute to improving the law enforcement in social networks.Read more about this here.But this is only slow.Facebook and Google have already filed a lawsuit.

In this video here Ruth Moschner reads the letter.

The "The Masked Singer" rater is therefore now publishing an open letter to the public prosecutor's office in Berlin, Marco Buschmann and his Federal Ministry of Justice as well as Nancy Faeser and the Interior Ministry.The content: Moschner's own history and a dramatic appeal.

"The communication of the public prosecutor's office was disappointing"

Moschner listed some of the news that was sent to her via Instagram, showed this to the police.Without success!"The announcement by the public prosecutor's office that the investigation is terminated with regard to my criminal complaint because a perpetrator could not be determined was disappointing," said Moschner in the letter.However, she only made an angry inspection of the files.Because there she could read that the public prosecutor's office only wrote a few emails to Facebook but have never been answered, explains Moschner.Follow: Investigations set.

Thus, "the insulting and devoting messages to the object of sexual shoots" without consequences for the online fabric.She is directed to the authorities and politics with a simple request: "I therefore appeal to you: Please do not allow it that in this case lobbyism gains and as a citizen there is no protection against network crime, which in my opinion is just as consequencesThreats must be threatened like analog crimes."Furthermore, she demands:" Go to the matter as a crime here in Germany requires."

"I should feel flattered..."

At the request of T-Online, she explains that she feels that this type of news from politics and judiciary is trivialized.It is often said: "I should feel flattered, or not be surprised, after all, I would provoke it with my behavior and I just shouldn't have it in case of doubt."

However, it is not just about the Dickpic that she gets, but about any form of online hatred."We also speak of bullying, murder threats, stalking, harassment of transgender women or men, homosexuals, openly lived racism or anti -Semitism.If you do not have to carry a consequence for your offenses on the Internet, you will dull, "said the TV star..

Her great concern is that Facebook and Google will get through the planned expansion of the NetzDG with their complaint."Why does our state not finally draw the consequence and put more pressure on the app operators: Instead, we have to fear that the networks will get through with their lawsuit against the NetzDG."Can the new traffic light coalition prevail?" I hope that very much.To be honest, I'm pretty desperate, "said Moschner.