The Globe and Mail: Ontario Premier Doug Ford to reverse retroactive cuts to municipalities. https://www-theglobeandmail-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/canada/article-ontario-premier-doug-ford-to-reverse-retroactive-cuts-to/
> Ontario Premier Doug Ford is announcing Monday that he will cancel a series of retroactive funding cuts that hit municipalities this year, including reductions for public health and childcare.
> The announcement presumably leaves the plans for steep cuts to a range of provincial funding for cities in place for future years, however.
soo ... ummm.... apparently the head of the largest German conservative party just basically commited political suicide.
not "just now", but a few hours ago.
She called for "Regulation of political endorsements from youtubers during election periods"
A subsequent tweet of hers where she could have put things into a perspective that wasn't outright violation of the constitution but doubled down is at 3.8k answers and 149 retweets right now
@Vogel612 I feel like she does have a point though from what you're saying. The internet is a wild west of political advertising and the far right players on the field are much more skilled at exploiting that
there are strict rules around that in Germany, heavily regulating what can and can not be put "on the air"
The problem is that she's proposing a regulation of free speech on youtubers that has absolutely no equivalent anywhere in existing German law
She basically attempts to construe YouTubers to have the same status as publicly financed and by law mandated to be neutral television
Even when you try to push youtubers to the same status as newspapers (which was her justification), it doesn't shake out under current legislation or the constitution
@Vogel612 That's actually a good thing IMHO. Youtube right now needs regulation related to what can happen on there, because Google itself sucks at that sort of thing
so you're saying an hour long video citing around 140 sources that were subsequently checked by multiple "old media" outlets and found generally correct is "propaganda"?
Because that's what happened
someone grabbed ~140 different sources for different talking points and ranted for an hour
these 140 sources range from outlets of the state over reutters and similar agencies to scientific studies and the IPCC
They fucked up in some pretty major ways with their response to the video, it's quite incredible. I don't think it would have gotten much mainstream attention without their botched response
@Vogel612 Right now it's a dumb statement they can walk back and the whole thing will be forgotten very soon. That's very far away from the case where she's serious and tried to actually push that thought seriously, which I really can't imagine happening
I think I might have been exposed too much to Trump to judge the response this might get in Germany. I'm far more cynical about what scandals politicians can survive now