Let the truth be told, let the press be free.

[connynasch@mastodon.social]

@ASardinianAbroad @EUCommission not just Germany...

[asardinianabroad@mastodon.social]

@connynasch @EUCommission for sure

[decorum@kanoa.de]

@EUCommission Walk your Talk would be a very nice mantra.

Germany for example already losses 3 places at the Press Freedom Index.

[doc@mastodon.social]

@EUCommission it’s owned by Axel Springer here.

[lykkerik@fribygda.no]

@EUCommission No charges. No trial. No conviction. Just punishment.
Free Hüseyin Doğru. End the EU Sanctions on Journalism.

His bank accounts are frozen. He is banned from working.https://informationrights.org/take-action/free-huseyin-dogru

[bboett@mastodon.online]

@EUCommission then start cleaning your own house, if I look at the World Press Freedom Index personally I think that anything under 90% in our EU is unacceptable and should be fixed immediately! Naturally if you want to silence press by #chatcontrol or forcing to publish sources.....

[khardan@frikiverse.zone]

@EUCommission so, about that... Israel is not committed to any of these values, as seen by their genocidal and cruel treatment of their neighbors. Would you kindly remind them of that by severing ties with them?

[khardan@frikiverse.zone]

@EUCommission also... If freedom of the press is the foundation of democracy, then billionaires buying and dismembering any media outlet and pushing their propaganda is a ticking bomb... So let's regulate them out of their unnecesary wealth.

[vekkq@social.vivaldi.net]

@EUCommission for this independence, it will require a reliable source of unconditional support.

[pantarhei@freiburg.social]

@doc let's say dominated, Axel Springer SE does not control all the press in Germany, but it's able to set the talking points and draw public attention to where they want it to be.

(… not to mention our dysfunctional public broadcast …)

@EUCommission

[lindarosesmit@mastodon.social]

@EUCommission well done. Now start sanctioning Israel for constantly targeting journalist.

[atanasoff@mastodon.social]

@EUCommission EU commission put sanctions on their own citizens for just saying things that they deem "dangerous"

[wurzelgemuese@social.tchncs.de]

@EUCommission i only read BILD because of the nice chics ^^

[kennergf@mas.to]

@EUCommission let's make an exercise, who owns the press?

[rhelune@todon.eu]

@EUCommission You are starving a German journalist's children because he dared to write about the genocide of Palestinians!

[jipexu@mastodon.social]

@lindarosesmit @EUCommission
@Gardenia @Geri
Sérieusement !?
Vous avez toujours 3 ou 4 guerres de retard avant de seulement vous inquiéter mollement... mais votre inaction chronique pour des sanctions envers les auteurs des ces crimes, ne fait que les aggraver et les multiplier ! ...

[ikuturso@mastodon.social]

@Lykkerik @EUCommission if he indeed was funneling Russian state money into propaganda projects it seems entirely appropriate, that isn't journalism.

[lykkerik@fribygda.no]

@ikuturso @EUCommission No charges, no trial, no conviction, just punishment, seems entirely appropriate to you?

[gardenia@eldritch.cafe]

@jipexu C'est du blabla.... diplomatique... comme notre MEAE. Je les connais bien les diplos : ils sortent tous de sciences po ou de l'ENA, ils sont formatés pour reciter des éléments de langages, pas pour être dans l'action.
@lindarosesmit @EUCommission @Geri

[ikuturso@mastodon.social]

@Lykkerik @EUCommission it's exactly how sanctions are supposed work, they're not at all a "punishment" in the sense that convictions in the justice system are.

That's not to say they cannot be challenged legally after the fact of course if there's any real basis to do it. In this case it sounds like there may not really be.