Attacks on press freedom and democratic norms
Reporting on legislation targeting journalists and media is the springboard for this essay on authoritarian tactics against press, science, and public memory.
Why it matters: free press is how corruption and public-health failures become visible.
Read the linked legislation coverage, then the surrounding commentary. Watch for coordinated attacks on facts, teachers, and science as a package, not isolated culture fights.
A threat to free speech: Ron DeSantis targets journalists, media with new legislation (msn.com)
Attack facts, attack history, attack books, attack teachers, attack science, attack memory, attack immigrants, attack LBG, attack public health, attack the very basis of a free press, thus the discoveries of deceits, grafts, frauds, and corruptions. These are the type of tactics we should expect from a strongman type authoritarian. I think he deserves a fair trial on war crimes charges stemming from Guantanamo and Fallujah, rather than the chance to further advance his unique brand of contemporary fascism. Till then, he will continue to spew his venom to attack the very foundations of human rights, democracy and rule of law. LS