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A Fascist Dictator in Hungary?
Date:
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Author(s):
Richard Cottrell Draconian Censorship Law Takes Effect
On New Year's Day, a strange and disturbing event occurred in the small central European state of Hungary. A state promulgation came into effect which directly conjured forth the activities of the Ministry of Truth in Orwell's ever more prophetic 1984. With almost no dissent or critical comment from abroad, a new star chamber eerily called the Media and Communications Authority was henceforth empowered to impose enormous fines on broadcasting corporations, newspapers and magazines unwise enough to repeat or record anything considered by the these faceless commissars as "unbalanced, or offensive to human dignity or common morals".
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