{"id":203626,"date":"2025-11-27T20:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T20:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/203626\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T20:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T20:54:09","slug":"german-censorship-report-should-ring-alarm-bells-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/203626\/","title":{"rendered":"German censorship report should ring alarm bells here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A wide-ranging report into the \u2018German Censorship Network\u2019 was released earlier this week, documenting the \u201cunusually close\u201d relationship between the German government and organisations that present themselves as independent, such as foundations, fact-checkers, think-tanks and NGOs.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Sound familiar? It could be where we\u2019re headed, thanks to the European Commission\u2019s firmly guiding hand, which is heavily influenced by the German approach to information management and conversation control, an approach that\u2019s already spreading out into the rest of the Union via mechanisms like the controversial Digital Services Act (DSA) and threatens to go further with <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/europe-is-divided-over-chatcontrol-the-govt-isnt\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">still-debated measures like \u2018Chat Control\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Get unlimited access to Gript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wide-ranging report into the \u2018German Censorship Network\u2019 was released earlier this week, documenting the \u201cunusually close\u201d relationship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6621,112113,6,112114,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-203626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-hateaid","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-institute-for-strategic-dialogue","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories","23":"tag-world","24":"tag-world-news","25":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}