Mint Press News suspended on TikTok, The Grayzone’s fundraising campaign frozen by GoFundme, and now The Cradle’s Facebook page is unpublished. Independent journalism is losing a war and few people seem to notice.
A historical fact that the French should remember better: the Police nationale, which is subordinate nowadays to Gérald Darmanin, a church mouse who on occasion, gets oral sex from citizens against reward, was founded on August 14, 1941. Here on January 21, 1942, French police officers pledged allegiance in Paris to the head of the fascist State, Philippe Pétain (Roger-Viollet)
the DGSI subcontracts to London
read a brief evocation on April 18, found it difficult to believe, until a first French article [English] in the evening, in Libération.
The United Kingdom’s right-wing dominated government is on course to greatly expand its ability to prosecute and jail whistleblowers and journalists through amendments to the country’s Official Secrets Acts.
Chilling new proposals By Dan Frieth | Reclaim the Net | July 20, 2021
As if there needed to be yet another threat to free speech in the UK, British journalists could face 14-year prison sentences for publishing stories embarrassing the government, under proposed reforms to the Official Secrets Act. According to the government, the new proposals will crack down on foreign spies but many fear it could even be used domestically.
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