
Germany’s Free Speech Row Deepens After CDU Leader Backs Media Bans
Calls by CDU premier Daniel Günther to ban critical media are not an aberration but a symptom of a political culture in which dissent is treated as a problem to be eliminated.

Calls by CDU premier Daniel Günther to ban critical media are not an aberration but a symptom of a political culture in which dissent is treated as a problem to be eliminated.

Three influencers with over 200 million views between them were banned from entering a state parliament and are under investigation for right-wing extremism by the state’s domestic spy agency.
The ruling is a humiliating defeat for the German liberal elites.