{"id":388516,"date":"2018-12-10T01:27:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T00:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/know-the-propaganda-about-eastern-europe-being-authoritarian\/"},"modified":"2018-12-10T01:27:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T00:27:10","slug":"know-the-propaganda-about-eastern-europe-being-authoritarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/know-the-propaganda-about-eastern-europe-being-authoritarian\/","title":{"rendered":"Know the Propaganda About Eastern Europe Being Authoritarian?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The supposed descent of Eastern European countries, and particularly Poland and Hungary, into the grips of authoritarian nationalist regimes has been the subject of heated discussion. This concern has not only attracted the anxious attention of our leftist media, such as the<em>\u00a0New York Times<\/em>, the\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>, and the\u00a0<em>New York Review of Books<\/em>; it has also occasioned heated reactions from Republican think tanks in Washington, most notably\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/neocons-and-liberals-join-forces-to-fight-populism\/\">AEI<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/civil-society\/commentary\/it-time-debate-and-end-identity-politics\">Heritage Foundation<\/a>.\u00a0Both have issued statements of concern about the identitarian and anti-liberal direction now affecting Orban\u2019s Hungary, Poland, and, perhaps less dramatically, Austria and Italy under right-of-center governments. Presumably Western European countries with socially liberal but pro-capitalist governments are better protected against the threat of this right-wing pestilence. In layman\u2019s language, this may mean that these other European countries are seen as friendlier to American political and economic elites.<\/p>\n<p>In view of these now prevalent attitudes, it may be useful to look at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.polemia.com\/liberte-dexpression-la-france-derriere-la-russie-et-la-hongrie-indice-libertex-2018\/\">a recently concluded French study<\/a>\u00a0by Libertex, a libertarian polling operation, on the open exchange of information in various European countries.\u00a0This comparative study, which looks at various European countries in terms of their openness to dissenting political views, constructs several criteria for its investigation. Among them are the relative absence of hate speech laws, an impartial (non-politicized) judicial system, the willingness or unwillingness of governments to ask Google and Facebook to censor unacceptable political opinion (a practice that in Western Europe almost always targets the right), the number of news agencies, and the possibility of holding open discussion&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/12\/paul-gottfried\/think-eastern-europe-is-authoritarian-try-germany-and-france\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The supposed descent of Eastern European countries, and particularly Poland and Hungary, into the grips of authoritarian nationalist regimes has been the subject of heated discussion. This concern has not only attracted the anxious attention of our leftist media, such as the\u00a0New York Times, the\u00a0Washington Post, and the\u00a0New York Review of Books; it has also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-388516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}