Tag Archives: Censorship

The Global Censorship-Industrial Complex

December 24, 2025 By in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Hideology, Higher Education, Home Cooking Tags: , , , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

Isn’t all that complex.

It just wants to tell you what not to think. It suppresses American viewpoints, in other words.

USA sanctions leadership of German organization HateAid – The entry ban imposed by the US government due to alleged censorship of American online platforms also affects the directors of the German organization HateAid, which is committed to combating hate online.

“For far too long, ideologues in Europe have led organized efforts to force American platforms to punish American viewpoints that do not suit them.”

Maligning German politicians online?

November 13, 2025 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking Tags: , , , , , Leave a comment

The nerve. That ought to be strictly verboten – in Germany.

Oh. Thank goodness. It already is.

Germany news: Internet freedom in decline — Self-censorship and robust use of anti-defamation laws are on the rise in Germany, says the Freedom House agency.

Germany has witnessed a decline in internet freedom, an annual study by Freedom House said on Thursday.

The Washington-based democracy promotion group surveyed freedom on the internet in 72 nations for 2025, in a global landscape marred by persistent authoritarian repression and backsliding in western democracies when it comes to imposing growing curbs online.

Freedom House said that Germany fell by three points in the internet freedom score to a total of 74.

Thief rejects claim he stole the chicken…

August 14, 2025 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking Tags: , , , , Leave a comment

While still holding on to the chicken.

Germany rejects US censorship claims in human rights report – The report itself has been accused of political bias, with the US softening criticism of Israel and El Salvador. Germany rejected the report saying it has “a very high level of freedom of expression.”

“There is no censorship in Germany.”

German of the day: “Fast die Hälfte”

May 4, 2025 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology Tags: , , , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

That means almost half.

As in “almost half of Germans are in favor of banning the AfD, according to a survey.” And this means, of course, that the majority of Germans are against banning the AfD.

Almost half of Germans in favor of banning the AfD, according to survey – 61% of Germans consider the AfD to be a right-wing extremist party. According to a representative survey, 48% want it to be banned.

German of the day: Verdeckte Tyrannei

May 3, 2025 By in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: , , , , , , Leave a comment

That means covert tyranny.

Following the classification of the AfD as “verified right-wing extremist” by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, US Secretary of State Rubio has described the classification as “covert tyranny,” while US Vice President Vance even draws historical comparisons.

Both US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and US Vice President J.D. Vance have criticized the new classification of the AfD by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution with vigorous words. The Federal Foreign Office responded to the X-word battle and countered: “That’s democracy.”

“Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That’s not democracy — it’s tyranny. What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD, but rather the establishment’s deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes.”

Thought Crime and Punishment

April 22, 2025 By in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking Tags: , , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

Watch your step in Germany.

The British news magazine “Economist”, which is read by decision-makers worldwide, sounds the alarm: in Germany, freedom of opinion is increasingly under threat – from laws, court judgments and a way of dealing with criticism that raises questions in a liberal democracy.

The report focuses on the case of journalist David Bendels. The editor-in-chief of the right-wing populist “Deutschland-Kurier” had published a manipulated photo of Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser holding a sign saying “I hate freedom of expression.” The Economist notes: “Such images are commonplace on social media.” However, Faeser filed a criminal complaint – and a court sentenced Bendels to a seven-month suspended sentence, a heavy fine and an apology.

Democracies and Death Cults

April 21, 2025 By in Hard Facts, Higher Education, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hysteria Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

Looks like the death cults win.

Douglas Murray has been blacklisted in Berlin – as a British writer living in Berlin, I recently attempted something that now passes for quietly provocative: I tried to buy a book. Not just any book, but On Democracies and Death Cults, the latest from Douglas Murray.

German of the day: Redefreiheit war gestern

April 18, 2025 By in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helections, Helplessness, Hideology Tags: , , , , Leave a comment

That means free speech was yesterday.

The threat to free speech in Germany – One of the freest countries in the world takes a hammer to its own reputation.

Freedom of expression jeopardized by coalition agreement?

A paragraph in the coalition agreement is now causing new concern online about the right to freedom of expression. “The future black-red coalition does not respect freedom,” according to the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. According to Cicero magazine, the potential new government is “alienated” from the “responsible citizen” and Die Welt warns of a new “kind of truth law.”

German of the day: Das tut man nicht

February 22, 2025 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: , , , , , Leave a comment

That means “one doesn’t do that.”

As in insult politicians. Otherwise we’ll arrest you. “Speech raids” are a thing in Germany.

Germans are being arrested for insulting politicians — we need to protect free speech so it never happens here.

The First Amendment is our sacred safeguard against becoming a censorious hellscape — like Germany, where insulting a politician can land you in prison.

Even supposedly “free” Western countries are liable to crack down on free speech at a moment’s notice, as a recent “60 Minutes” segment makes clear.

No censorship here, JD

February 19, 2025 By in Hard Facts, Helections, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hypocrisy Tags: , , , , Leave a comment

Well, not that much anyway. Actually, there is a considerable bit of it and it’s only getting worse, but still.

Germany is prosecuting online trolls. Here’s how the country is fighting hate speech on the internet.

Dozens of police teams across Germany raided homes before dawn in a coordinated crackdown on a recent Tuesday. The state police weren’t looking for drugs or guns, they were looking for people suspected of posting hate speech online.

As prosecutors explain it, the German constitution protects free speech, but not hate speech. And here’s where it gets tricky: German law prohibits speech that could incite hatred or is deemed insulting. Perpetrators are sometimes surprised to learn that what they post online is illegal, according to Dr. Matthäus Fink, one of the state prosecutors tasked with policing Germany’s robust hate speech laws.