58 sats \ 5 replies \ @siggy47 16 Jul \ on: German Socialists Ban Right-Wing Magazine 'Compact' news
How does the average citizen react to this censorship? Is free speech a cherished value?
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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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.