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110 sats \ 7 replies \ @Bell_curve 17 Jul \ parent \ on: German Govt Launches Massive Crackdown On (Right Wing) Press Freedom news
Can you blame them? Any criticism of unfettered migration and the omnipresence of the Israel lobby will be characterized as racism and anti-semitism
No. That's why I said I don't agree, everyone has the right to freedom of expression. But everyone should know, including those targeted by their racist and anti-Semitic attitudes, that they are extremists and do not represent European values.
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You can find them in practically all their magazines. Because it's so easy to find, I don't think it's necessary.
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I'm not going to waste much time on this because everyone who is even remotely informed knows that this is the case. I'll just leave you with this one.
The most recent issue featured the cover tagline “Germany for the Germans”, an old Nazi slogan sung in May by a group of well-heeled partygoers on the island of Sylt, captured in a video that went viral online and sparked outrage.
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The monthly magazine has a circulation of 40,000
Compact’s editor and CEO, Jürgen Elsässer, a former leftist who lurched to the right and now calls for the “toppling of the regime” in Germany, can appeal against the ban.
He called the raid an “attack on press freedom”, the daily Bild reported. “These are fascist measures by Nancy Faeser. Compact magazine’s funds are all being confiscated. I can no longer pay salaries,” he was quoted as saying.
The far-right AfD made strong gains in elections for the European parliament last month and is in the lead for polls in three east German states in September. Leading AfD officials in Thuringia and Brandenburg states, Stefan Möller and Hans-Christoph Berndt, strongly condemned the government’s Compact ban.
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