For those of you interested in media and its dark abyss and background stories, I have something breaking news from today. I received a phone call today from one of the leading representatives of the business associations in Europe. This group has been one of my clients for over 15 years and tends to stand for ordoliberal policies. I was asked in private by this person not to criticize the German government and the European policy in the way I have always done it in the last time in sharp critical glosses in opinion articles and in a very factual but hard way to point out the grievances of the European special German energy policy. Here the direct contact to certain media of the conservative spectrum was forbidden since one is above all in Germany the opinion that these are to be assigned meanwhile to the right-wing radical spectrum and the contact to these media all gates to other medium carriers closed. The communication style, especially with politicians, is supposed to be much more cooperative and the ideas of politics are supposed to be carried into society. Background were two complaints from ministerial level in Berlin over my articles I had published last to the socialist politics of Europe and the German Federal Government. It concerns exclusively factual however sharp criticism and the demand for free-market reforms. I never preferred in the name of others a political direction or referred to politicians or certain parties that is a pure Ordo liberal demand from view of the entrepreneur federations of Europe. So censorship reaches down to the lowest levels of textual work. This was so frustrating that I did the only thing I could think of at that moment: walked to the nearest Bitcoin ATM and shopped some Sats.
Cheers friends. Long live freedom. Fight for it!
I did not mention that my articles for this client will be controlled and censored by the head quarters before publishing...
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Just publish them on WordPress.com and send them the link.
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It's payed writing. Names and institutions are paying for their appearance in the press with their political standpoint. So it wouldn't fit
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How's that breaking news? You knew that if you rock hard enough there will be ripples. It's just like the old Italian mafia movie. First they tell you to stop, then (if you don't stop) they kneecap you or worse. Your call how far you wanna go. Sad but true.
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They blocked my first article this morning after the discussion. It's unbelievable
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That sucks man... What's your plan? There is one old "sly about way" to write about something without actually writing about it, you know using "fairy tales" or fictional characters where everyone knows who the actors are without naming names (Krylov, Pushkin, Lermontov and the likes in the old Soviet Russia). At least you get to tell the story and hopefully keep your freedom...lol. Just a thought.
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Thanks man! Really nice words. I'll have a week-end off at the beach and will be considering these things that just happened. I think the econ situation puts the system under immense pressure that they defend themselves by using dirty play
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