🇩🇪 GERMAN FREE SPEECH REALITY:
A user jokingly blamed the former chancellor Scholz for his internet trouble, and German state attorneys sued him. He even received a letter with the printed tweet.
That's Germany, folks
🇩🇪 Germany’s government is proposing a bill that could block people from buying homes if they’re suspected of “anti-constitutional” views — even without any criminal conviction.
The draft would give local authorities first refusal on property sales and allow intelligence agencies to share personal data to vet buyers. It is framed as a way to stop extremism.
Follow: @europa
Germany’s sanctions office (operates under the Finance Ministry) froze my wife's accounts.
When journalist @fwarweg asked the Finance Ministry about it, they claimed to know nothing.
They can find us when they want to punish us.
But when we want answers, we don’t exist.
Source: @berlinerzeitung
EU strips journalist Hüseyin Doğru (@hussedogru) of livelihood over pro-Palestine reporting
• Doğru’s coverage of anti-Israel demonstrations in Germany was cited as evidence of his ties to “Russian disinformation campaigns.”
• After Doğru’s bank accounts were frozen, the sanctions were extended to his spouse’s accounts, effectively cutting off the family’s livelihood.
• The EU labels Doğru as a Turkish citizen, despite the fact that he was born and raised in Germany and never obtained Turkish citizenship. This designation denies him legal remedies he would otherwise have as an EU citizen.
• Yet he is not surprised by what happened to him: “People are shocked with that, but why are you shocked? You’re talking about a country that supports another country that on purpose kills babies in Gaza; why would they be afraid to do the same here in a different way?”
🗞️ İrfan Kovankaya
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I’ve been telling you this was coming. For months.
Now it’s here.
I don’t tell you what makes you feel good. I tell you what’s actually happening. I tell you the truth.
That’s why 1.4M of you are here.
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