13 sats \ 2 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 17 Jul \ parent \ on: German Govt Launches Massive Crackdown On (Right Wing) Press Freedom news
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.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/16/germany-bans-rightwing-extremist-compact-magazine
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24 sats \ 0 replies \ @398ja 17 Jul
Thanks 0x, for taking the time.
I look at it this way: Considering the magnitude of the failure of the German government on the immigration issue, it's hard for me to blame the actual victims.
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 17 Jul
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.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/14/young-germans-afd-european-elections
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/07/east-germany-west-far-right-afd-gdr
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