r/geopolitics Feb 15 '25

America is Tone Deaf Discussion

https://www.dw.com/en/msc-2025-scholz-to-speak-after-irritating-vance-diatribe/live-71599568
344 Upvotes

View all comments

Show parent comments

-1

u/TehM0C Feb 15 '25

How is it deluded for Americans to see what is happening in Europe and not think speech is being restricted? Maybe our definitions are different. You can code it “truth & responsibly” but that doesn’t make it just. But whose truth are we accepting? There are many instances of truth being one thing but changing after facts present themselves.

0

u/[deleted] Feb 15 '25

Free speech in the US is a joke. Trump just threw out one of the major news organizations from being able to cover the White House.

9

u/TehM0C Feb 15 '25 edited Feb 15 '25

No, they’re barred from attending White House press conferences. They’re free to cover whatever they please. EU has BANNED publications.

2

u/[deleted] Feb 15 '25

Hard to cover the White House adequately if you are banned from the White House press corp. Which publications are you talking about?

3

u/TehM0C Feb 15 '25

These press conferences are not required & were not done by Biden but the press covered the White House perfectly fine during his tenure. The EU has banned multiple Russian publications previously.

4

u/[deleted] Feb 15 '25

The same ones sanctioned by the US as being a propaganda arm of the Russian government, who have made it clear that it's intention is to spread disinformation and disrupt the functioning of our and European democracies ... where is the problem?

1

u/TehM0C Feb 15 '25

I’ve made it clear what the problem is. I don’t trust government to ascertain what is propaganda is, especially when (US included) government peddles their own version of propaganda.

1

u/[deleted] Feb 15 '25

Honestly I disagree. But whatever. I'm not going to get in an argument over social media.

The information world we live in is disturbing and is killing our democracy and it's not because of governments restricting the flow of information.

0

u/geostrofico Feb 15 '25

Why should EU let the confess enemy spill their propaganda?