George Soros

[SoldierOfTheKing]

Unless it's not neo-nazi speech:
During the last week of November, Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian Prime Minister, reached a crucial point in his fight against press freedom; several private Hungarian media were donated to the Central European Press and Media Foundation (CEPMF). Until this point, those pro government media were competing for advertisement incomes, but from now on they will crush the rest of the media in Hungary.
Since 2010, when Orbán returned to power, press freedom has been under pressure: nowadays, both the public and most of the private media are vectors of the pro government propaganda. In the case of private media, its control used to pass through people close to Orbán, such as Lőrinc Mészáros, who owned several local newspapers. Now, this control is direct and centralised because of the CEPMF.

If freedom of the press precludes political bias in media, it raises serious questions about freedom of the press here, especially with everything the Tech T has done to deplatform those whose views it disagrees with. Perhaps your particular bone to pick is that the Hungarian media is not dominated by Soros synchopants.

They've seen what Soros has been up to right next door in Poland...

Soros and Publisher Buy Poland’s No. 2 Radio Station

...and those who lost their minds over Russians buying less than $100K in Facebook ads commenting on US elections seem to have little to say about this massive foreign buyout of Poland's media. This is precisely the sort of thing that Hungary's new laws were designed to prevent. To protect freedom of the press.

As you know, the far right has freedom of speech in Western Europe. Orban's decision to eliminate that freedom in Hungary is not at all like America. It's like Trump's vision of America.

Those who have been prosecuted under European "hate speech" laws know otherwise. "Far right" in the European context essentially means anybody who supports strict immigration laws. You yourself brought up Jewish leaders in Hungary demanding the suppression of freedom of assembly in Hungary. Why were they so brazen? It's because of what so many EU countries have already done.

 

[The Barbarian]

As expected, it was edited to make it look as though Soros was saying things he didn't mean.

Hard to understand the depth of hatred for that guy. It seems to have completely deranged white nationalists to the point that they've convinced themselves that a Jewish child was guilty of the Holocaust.

 

[The Barbarian]

(Barbarian notes government control of media in Hungary)

If freedom of the press precludes political bias in media,

It precludes government control of media, of the sort they have in Hungary. Imagine if only Fox or MSNBC was allowed by government to operate. That's what Hungary has.

it raises serious questions about freedom of the press here, especially with everything the Tech T has done to deplatform those whose views it disagrees with.

So long as the government stays out of it, there will always be Fox and the Daily Stormer for the far right, and MSNBC and various blogs for the far left. And that's fine. So long as no one has control of a majority of news media, it doesn't matter.

Perhaps your particular bone to pick is that the Hungarian media is not dominated by Soros synchopants.

The point is that the Hungarian government now controls the vast majority of news media. Just what you're claiming to dislike. Perhaps your particular bone to pick is that the extreme right does not control media in America, as it does in Hungary.

 

[All Englands Skies]

He is a very successful business man in spite of many hardships. He spends his money in support of causes he believes in. To me those causes are to the betterment of humanity. It puzzles me that so many are angered by this. Perhaps if he was supporting their cause? Perhaps if he wasn't Jewish?

In the 1970's and 1980's the Communist Countries hated Soros because he funded anti-communist movements and they deemed him a Capitalist meddler and trying to spread right wing ideology.

Nowadays its claimed he's a Communist meddler who tries to undermine nations to spread left wing ideology.

in reality Soros is just another oxymoronic person, its almost a joke.

There is nothing unique about Soros, he was a greedy opportunist financer, who makes himself feel better by Philanthropy, over compensating so to speak, because his gains are that of a legalised swindler.

If he wasn't Jewish, they'd be hardly any conspiracies about him, infact he'd more likely be hated by the "far left", who'd just see him as a greedy, banking financier who cloaks himself in Liberal causes to help himself sleep at night.

And Donald Trump, he's a hypocrite, he is just plain greedy, doesn't even feel enough guilt to give to philanthropic causes and he meddles in politics, he's in the White house!!!

*another fun fact about George Soros was in the 1980s he funded the very types of anti-communist regime movement Viktor Orban was a member of at the same time, you'd think Victor Orban would show gratitude towards him instead of scorn. bizarre really.

 

[All Englands Skies]

(Barbarian notes government control of media in Hungary)



It precludes government control of media, of the sort they have in Hungary. Imagine if only Fox or MSNBC was allowed by government to operate. That's what Hungary has.



So long as the government stays out of it, there will always be Fox and the Daily Stormer for the far right, and MSNBC and various blogs for the far left. And that's fine. So long as no one has control of a majority of news media, it doesn't matter.


The point is that the Hungarian government now controls the vast majority of news media. Just what you're claiming to dislike. Perhaps your particular bone to pick is that the extreme right does not control media in America, as it does in Hungary.

Viktor Orban would not be where he is today without Soros funding and Scholarships, he benefitted greatly from Soros causes, one could argue Viktor Orban "sold out" Soros.

 

[SoldierOfTheKing]

There is nothing unique about Soros, he was a greedy opportunist financer, who makes himself feel better by Philanthropy, over compensating so to speak, because his gains are that of a legalised swindler.

If he wasn't Jewish, they'd be hardly any conspiracies about him, infact he'd more likely be hated by the "far left", who'd just see him as a greedy, banking financier who cloaks himself in Liberal causes to help himself sleep at night.

You assume that if he wasn't Jewish, he would support the causes same causes he does? I manage to sleep just fine at night without supporting liberal causes.

*another fun fact about George Soros was in the 1980s he funded the very types of anti-communist regime movement Viktor Orban was a member of at the same time, you'd think Victor Orban would show gratitude towards him instead of scorn. bizarre really.

The enemy of my enemy is not my friend, and many dissidents behind the Iron Curtain were well aware of that. By the 1980s Washington had already become a greater danger to the sovereignty of free nations than Moscow.

Viktor Orban would not be where he is today without Soros funding and Scholarships, he benefitted greatly from Soros causes, one could argue Viktor Orban "sold out" Soros.

Hungary didn't benefit from Soros' causes and it is Hungary that Orban represents as Prime Minister. If Soros wanted to fool himself into thinking that Orban could be bought, that was on him...