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[–] Nomad@infosec.pub 3 points 9 months ago

My counter is: have you been at the SMV? Have you seen how much government employees loathe to work? The most reliable way to kill the fifth estate is to make them government employees.

Kinda /s

Germany has a mixed landscape of government and private money in the media landscape and it kinda works so maybe it's not the worst idea.

Then again it's the people not the rules, swiss people all have guns and don't shoot up schools on the daily....