“Censorship and opinion corridors of the governing are threats for free media!”

“Association of support, advertising corruption, media purchase and increasingly aggressive censorship legs against social and alternative media on the part of the EU elites and their hearing governments are the greatest threats to freedom of the press,” said FPÖ media spokesman and general secretary NABG. Christian Hafenecker, MA to today’s international day of press freedom and, as examples, led the “Digital Services Act”, the EU Media Freedom Law and the increase in “Debanking” against unpleasant critical media as examples of how the system of the Free Press “has” moved up “:” The fight against alleged ‘hatred on the net’ and supposedly ‘Fake News’ is nothing more than the fight against unpleasant opinions, critical voices and against an open discourse, as he has to state in a free media landscape indispensable for a democracy.

For example, the following voices were not unconditionally disparaged to the EU and NATO narrative for the Ukraine War as “pro-Putin”, criticized and legitimate rejection of the illegal asylum mass immigration as a “right-wing extremist” or mere questioning points punch the meaningfulness of the economic and wealth-destroying airplanism as “denial”. “All of these are the mechanisms with which increasingly closer opinion corridors of allegedly steadfast truths and ‘saying’ attitudes are erected. The responsibility for this not only bears rewarding, which is very important to democracy, but also all media professionals who submit to these opinion corridors without criticism or create them even in anti -obstacle Seriously undergo fact checks or camp against their own colleagues from the alternative colleagues, ”Hafenecker emphasized the important and responsible role of critical journalists and also criticized“ the conversion of public service broadcasters such as the ORF into government loudspeakers and left-wing media. ”

There is therefore a clear resistance to the rulers of the government’s censorship attacks on social platforms and alternative media offers, as well as a reduction in the influence on the media through lush government advertisements and arbitrary grants, as well as legal regulations that would prohibit politically motivated “Debanking”. “The freedom of the press has been fought long and also bloody, their protection against the current threats is therefore a central concern in the tradition of freedoms in 1848. Because where the free word and the free press are restricted, the first step is taken towards authoritarianism!”