The culture war picks up speed. In Germany, the interior ministry announced that it will ban the right-wing conservative magazine 'Compact'. The woke and infantile Rainbow stalinism will defend itself tooth and nail, take censorship to the extreme and suppress free thought and expression, whatever the cost!
131 sats \ 1 reply \ @Coinsreporter 16 Jul
So, they are now collectively killing free speech
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67 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 16 Jul
This began professionally during the Merkel years and is now continuing, as we are experiencing in America, through the instrumentalization of the judiciary.
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58 sats \ 4 replies \ @jeff 16 Jul
Serious question: What if they moved outside of Germany. Would german's be able to access it then?
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13 sats \ 3 replies \ @TomK OP 16 Jul
With a VPN and access to the web from outside the EUSSR I think so, yes
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58 sats \ 2 replies \ @jeff 16 Jul
So where is the censoring happening, in that hypothetical situation? Why would a German need a VPN, to access a random website that the EUSSR doesn't like? Surely there are 1000s of websites that would trigger statists. Are German's blocked from accessing, like some kindof ISP enforced EU flavor of a great-firewall?
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40 sats \ 1 reply \ @TomK OP 16 Jul
with the digital services act, the european union is already putting massive pressure on all sites and forcing the major platforms in particular, with the exception of twitter, as we have seen, into censorship. of course, germany has its own laws, such as the so-called network enforcement act, which immediately takes unwanted texts etc. to court
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27 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 16 Jul
German political theorists have no principles.
Politics is a game with winners and losers, friends and enemies.
I mostly subscribe to that theory but Germany takes it to an extreme, ad reductio extremum, both right and left but never center
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58 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 16 Jul
And themselves from Bitcoin
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33 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 16 Jul
Tomahawks in - Bitcoin out
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58 sats \ 3 replies \ @398ja 16 Jul
I used to read compact, a very long time ago. I'll look them up again. It's crucial for us plebs to be exposed to multiple view points...
If we can't fight with words, will end up fighting with swords.
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15 sats \ 2 replies \ @TomK OP 16 Jul
or you are no longer fighting at all because you have already been demoralized. this campaign by the left is clearly a demoralization campaign.
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58 sats \ 1 reply \ @398ja 16 Jul
It looks like they've taken down their website already.
https://www.compact-online.de/
I hope they find ways around this ban, maybe by publishing in a foreign magazine, or on nostr, etc...
The same people who thought they could stop the spread of an airborne virus equally believe that they can stop ideas from spreading in the age of the Internet.
It will backfire.
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15 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 16 Jul
It's always the same methods that these clowns use when they are intellectually inferior. We must defend free media platforms
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58 sats \ 5 replies \ @siggy47 16 Jul
How does the average citizen react to this censorship? Is free speech a cherished value?
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72 sats \ 4 replies \ @TomK OP 16 Jul
the german people have been completely propagandized. we have experienced such an extreme shift to the left since the merkel years that formerly value-conservative positions are now branded as nazi stuff. there is a silence in the public space, nobody criticizes the migration crisis, the socialist economic policy or the climate policy. whoever does so has to expect severe consequences, a flood of court cases, whoever criticizes the Ukraine war in its current form, for example, etc. the issue of freedom of opinion plays no role at all in public discourse.
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64 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 16 Jul
That's the impression I have. I guess I should be happy the US isn't there yet. Still, over my lifetime things have changed culturally. Orwell and Huxley were taught and revered in school. There was a black and white cold war distinction between the Soviet Union and the west. It seemed like the #1 criticism against the USSR was its propaganda and censorship. Pravda was criticized as a joke. Now most of our MSM is a joke.
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69 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 16 Jul
we now see more clearly than ever what the real function of mass media is. it must synchronize mass opinion and thus ensure orderly behavior, create your resonance space for political narratives to contain the herd and not allow dissent.
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45 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 16 Jul
Alternative for Deutschland!
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13 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 16 Jul
There is no second best
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58 sats \ 0 replies \ @Akg10s33 16 Jul
It is worrying to see what attacks against the right and free expression... I thought that in Germany progress was being made regarding the issue of freedom of expression... from what you can see it is the opposite and clearly trying to do it without it being notice so much...
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45 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 16 Jul
Compact should have a Tor website
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13 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 16 Jul
I really don't get why they do not move away
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45 sats \ 1 reply \ @SpaceHodler 16 Jul
How can such a ban even be enforced?
Presumably the choke point is the fiat funding, be it via subscriptions or ads?
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15 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 16 Jul
For years, legislators in Germany have been creating offenses that make hate speech or incitement to hatred, which is of course defined by the state, a legal offense.
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45 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 16 Jul
I thought having free press is in the German constitution?
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14 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 16 Jul
yes, it's the same as the so-called separation of powers: all three powers derive from the same institution, the state. that means it's all a big illusion. Paper is extremely patient, we have to fight for this freedom and then live it
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