Why you oppose TikTok's ban & #KOSA at all costs (besides decency re the latter)
"Trying to shore up the republic during its early, crisis-ridden years, the government introduced post-publication censorship. In the early 1930s, press freedom was threatened further as rule by decree became the norm: Chancellor Brüning suspended the publication of newspapers for brief periods of time on 284 occasions..."
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"...while his successor, Franz von Papen, banned 95 in a considerably shorter time, half of them publications run by the Communist or Social Democratic Party. Such precedents made it easy for the Nazis to ‘co-ordinate’ the media when they came to power in 1933."
Source: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n11/richard-j.-evans/whiter-washing
#Nazism #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Centrism
h/t @AnarchoNinaWrites, @gwynnion for basically pointing this out ad nauseum
