Chris Gattringer has an interesting Brussels Signal piece on another example of the open advocacy of media censorship in Germany. Well worth reading within the context of the UK government's apparent wish to stamp out X.
German State PM under fire for demanding crackdown on news sites and social media
Daniel Günther, the Conservative Prime Minster of the German State of Schleswig-Holstein, has come under fire for publicly embracing censorship of critical news sites and social media...
On January 7, Günther, a prominent politician with the ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, had joined the talk show Markus Lanz on State broadcasting station ZDF, originally to talk about the danger of a US annexation of Greenland...
Günther said. “Whenever our coalition [of CDU and Social Democrats] got into difficulties, this always had to with the fact that politics is being influenced by how certain media are trying to push their own political agenda.”
Asked by the moderator who exactly he was referring to, Günther mentioned Nius, an online news portal founded in 2022 which is popular with German conservatives and right-wingers.
Günther was outraged that people in his own party were “reading such portals and sharing their content in WhatsApp groups”.
2 comments:
For the full madness in Germany I go to eugyppius.com
Censorship, petty mindedness and thin skinned politicians. Probably a template for future scum party plans.
Anon - yes I've come across him - he's good. So grim it makes depressing reading though. I hope they come though it.
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