On Sunday, when CBS’s Margaret Brennan shockingly claimed that “free speech” was the cause of the German holocaust and rise in Naziism, a stunned Secretary of State Marco Rubio simply replied, “I have to fundamentally disagree with you, Margaret.” The reaction from American observers toward the interview, and in particular Vice-President JD Vance, was much less diplomatic. “This is a crazy exchange,” Vance said.
However, a few hours later the background context for Brennan’s position surfaced, when CBS 60 Minutes broadcast a defense of German laws that make it illegal to say something that can be construed as “insulting.” The CBS segment is naturally alarming to people who will not accept definitions of approved speech determined by government officials; especially for most Americans who have experienced the extreme online control operations by govt interests around the COVID-19 fiasco. Watch (prompted):
This is the mindset that JD Vance encountered following his honest remarks to the Munich Security Conference. The Vice-President outlined in his remarks that Europe was devolving into a totalitarian state, destroying democracy and using the power of government against the freewill and liberty of the European people.
Vance was pointing out the big picture of liberty, freedom and the value of democracy. After citing examples of oppressive EU action that included the nullification of the Romanian election, Vice-President Vance noted in his comments, “there is no security if you are afraid of the voices of your own people,” he said. Continuing, “if you are running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing the American people can do to assist you.” The EU collective, and specifically the German political leadership immediately decried the brutally honest remarks.
There is a particular irony in Germany saying that controversial speech is not protected speech, arresting people for what the state considers online antagonism, and then decrying Vice-President Vance for calling them out. The need for control is a reaction to fear (inherent insecurity), and the actions by the German government are extreme. However, for Germany this is particularly ironic.
We are only one generation from a time when the German ‘Stasi’ monitored the speech and communication of German citizens in order to maintain a brutally oppressive totalitarian state. Now, in their effort to control the voices of those who oppose government policy, the German politicians are again reverting to the use of a new online German Stasi for exactly the same purpose.
Germany seeks to control speech, control information, and control the voices of those they define as “unlawful” subversives acting against their national interests. CBS 60-Minutes highlights the policy and delivery of the process behind that control, while simultaneously supporting the totalitarian mindset.
In the bigger picture what CBS is doing is highlighting the anti-democratic view the media share, that information and speech must be controlled.
Thanks entirely to President Donald Trump, we are now entering an era where a Great American Awakening is taking place. We are watching moment by moment as newly revealed forces, govt institutions, judicial systems and political entities openly drop their masks, forcefully coming out in opposition to the sunlight and transparency President Trump represents.
Without any motive other than restoration, revelation, understanding and the reprioritization of freedom and liberty inherent in the Make America Great Again proposition, President Trump, DOGE, Elon Musk and all of those amid their teams who are pulling back the curtain hiding corruption, are facing extreme opposition by ‘elites’ and communists who have created decades of institutional control systems.
This supernova blast of Trumpian sunlight upon the corrupt systems of U.S. government has only just begun to penetrate. The tentacles of the metastasis extend beyond our borders into the global institutions those same ‘elites’ and communists have controlled.
From the United States Senate, through the Judicial Branch and across the Atlantic into the European Union, NATO agenda and Brussels, we are only just now witnessing the scale of the problem.
Stay strong!
There are more of us than them.



IMO you did handle it incorrectly; however, I also understand you probably just wanted to teach the children, and not become a lightening rod for leftist outrage, be doxed, and almost certainly loose your job. All of that is understandable; however, you also missed an opportunity to teach the children an incomparable lessen; namely, our European heritage at present is almost as dead as a door nail.
IDK. WHICH European heritage would teach/celebrate? English? French? German? Slavic? Greek? Italian? Spanish? They don’t have much of a common heritage beyond the various wars they’ve fought against one another.
So all of these progs calling us Hitlers is wild when they support the very things Hitler did. Do these ppl have any self awareness? They really are ill but I don’t know how to nullify them.
Journalists are among the dumbest people in the world. Added to that is theit marination in leftist thought which makes them believe theyre our intellectual and moral superiors.
Im thrilled to see legacy media not only throwing its mask off but dying before our eyes.
Remember…inside EVERY prog is an authoritarian screaming to get out.
Normally I would say it’s more projection, for which the fascistic left is famous. But they seem to believe their own hysterical narratives.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2 Thessalonians 2:11
2 Thessalonians 2:11 Context
8And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 13But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: 14Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
They’re dyed in the wool communists! They want to control and micromanage every aspect of life according to their dystopian vision.
Clearly they have zero self awareness. It’s difficult for us to comprehend, as it was in hitler’s day.
Every Monday morning we have to hear from all pundits on the right, where Margaret Brennan says outrageous things when interviewing republicans. This is how to nullify her, republicans should stop talking to her every Sunday. This is created chaos and 60 Minutes is much worse. Quit giving these commies any time, then they will fade away. And Rubio could have been more direct in his answer to refute her lie, but they sit there and act all respectful while they are being treated like trash.
A good question. Wondering why it is that they are labeled fake news but are still a part of the media covering major events. No matter what is said, it will be distorted. Why give them the chance?
Orwell saw this, in 1984 there is Doublespeak.
The Controllers are fully aware of their Doublespeak. Many apparatchiks are aware but bury their cognitive dissonance and parrot the Doublespeak to stay in the good graces of the tribe.
And then some apparatchiks are clueless.
I believe Sundance said Stasi, not Nazi.
Saying something that falls outside the pre-approved narratives is dangerous because it can lead others to question a narrative. Questioning preapproved narratives is extremely dangerous because it often leads to truths that we are not supposed to know, and THAT causes a further questioning.
“Hmmm. If they lied to me about THAT, then what about this related narrative that is based on that debunked narrative? Is that a lie as well? Oh, and then, what about the entire historical narrative of how the first narrative came about? Is that an elaborate lie as well?”
The answer is “yes.” We’ve been lied to about world events and their causes for the last hundred years, but if any part of the façade crumbles, the whole thing crumbles. So they defend the least of it to protect the whole of it.
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“The need for control is a reaction to fear (inherent insecurity)”
The need for control is more an outgrowth of arrogance (inherent feelings of superiority).
Tav is the Alpha and Omega of Make America Look At This,
And NOT at what Sundance shares with us Treepers.
Gotta pretend to a supremacist stance on all things Sundance, n’est-ce pas?
Wow, don’t come over here! We’ll send you down the hall to go see Helen Waite, she’s our thought police lady! She’s brutally honest!
Sooner or later, it is going to sink in that the Germans lost the war, but the Nazi high command and the central bankers won it.
Mike Benz laid this all out on Joe Rogan last week (#2272).
See commenter “Spiritual Alchemy”‘s timestamps list.
Statecraft through media manipulation and the militarization of propaganda is a key theme.
Surveillance and censorship are key–not exclusive, but key–elements of the method.
Panties + wadd = Margaret Brennan. Is she related to John?
That was chilling, a look back to the 1930s and 40s, and of course East Germany after the war. One of them, a woman, said half the people won’t comment on the internet any more, and she appeared to be unaware this is due to the fear of her gestapo.
Truth bombs are the most potent weapon there is. They never miss and there is little to no collateral damage.
The hazard is that the recipient may find it insulting and retaliate. Common problem in Muslim society.
“We are only one generation from a time when the German ‘Stasi’ monitored the speech and communication of German citizens in order to maintain a brutally oppressive totalitarian state.”
US of course monitors speech and other data.
Its closer than one generation.
Its one election or even closer.
AI at some point can and will control especially since it pedal to the metal warp speed ahead on super AI.
https://audaciouscat.com/rabbit/ai-danger-leading-to-ultimate-control-by-ai-2-16-2025/
The lamps have been going out all over Europe. I hope to see them re-lit in my lifetime.
60 Minutes YT Video: The guy on the left and the girl on the right (rain man) tells me everything I need to know without even watching the video.
Europe, like Canada have decided that maintaining the power of the elites is more important than keeping the common values that united us all.
They are unfortunately no longer allies.
And Great Britain.
To be honest, 1 month ago the US “common values” were post nation states, and trying to divide up Russia for its resources.
And Europe and Canada were on board with that.
A lot has changed though.
The EU and UK should just publish what they consider “legit” positions on everything. Then the public can be “free” to repeat, repost, retweet, etc. these government-approved “bon mots”. Zero discretion, zero judgement allowed. Problem solved.!! Maybe even number these sentiments, just for efficiency.
“28 and 642!! 28 and 642!!” Now that would be free and “safe” speech!
Of course, at some point, the small-minded German prosecutor at the table would arrest people for conspicuously NOT repeating “642”!
Those who want to silence you
Are
Those who want to control you
Free Speech
is
Free Speech
Period.
https://x.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1891550195168543012
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cbs can take their pos commie crap to europe…..get the hell out of our country dickheads….
Is there a special exemption for media and politicians?
Why is it the female in the group looks like she could kick both of the male’s butts in a throw down? Or is she not really a female?
Looks like a man to me, and it is Germany, after all.
Geeze….please get rid of that “apostrophe” in your username so we don’t have to moderate every comment you make. I’ve told you this at least 20 times now…
Maybe, since they don’t have the courtesy to remove the apostrophe you should stop moderating their comments and let them languish in the dust bin on unreadable postings.
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Just saying.
We are now witnessing the return of the movement toward Nazi Gleichschaltung. Fined today if you say something the government doesn’t like, but as in recent past history of Germany, it’s likely tomorrow you could be immediately shot or shipped to a concentration camp if you say something your local Commandant doesn’t like.
The US should seriously consider pulling funding from these countries. It is not in our best interest to keep propping them up financially, helping them convert to a threat to our national security. Americans work like slaves paying taxes through the roof, barely making ends meet, while our tax dollars fund military protection of these countries that fundamentally don’t like us and no longer share our democratic values. EU citizens enjoy all the perks of Socialism; month long vacations, free healthcare, etc because their society is based on reaping the benefits of spending other people’s money on their military security, etc. It’s true they pay sky high taxes themselves, but their lifestyle would be unsustainable if they actually had to pay their own bills. That’s why their Elites are in a panic. They are wise to get the sense after Vance’s speech that the gravy train coming from the US is about to end.
We helped Europe rebuild after WW2 but should have pulled them off the teat 50 years ago. Now there is little reason why we should keep financially enabling these Socialist- heading toward an Authoritarian State societies. The fear is they will be more vulnerable to a military take-over by China or Russia? But if they behave as though they have the same values as these Totalitarian States, what’s the difference? We can find better things to do with our trillions of dollars. We should strengthen our own economy and military, not those of our “allies.” I would bet not one of these countries would lift a finger to help us if the US were to come under attack, NATO or no NATO. The UN is also a useless entity that no longer shares our values and should be evicted from NYC and defunded. Let them go leech off another country somewhere.
I’d like to see us demand new leadership in Britain, France, and Germany (and others) in exchange for our continued support of them. We don’t need to be supporting countries that oppress their citizens’ speech and allow Islamist rape free for alls on their women.
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Yep, Germans pay 54 percent tax rate. But they get their cushy six weeks of vacation guaranteed. There are a lot of hard-working Germans, but it’s not like they have a choice. No wonder they drink so much beer; with a Nazi government reigning over me, I would too.
They also get a free college education. According to ChatGPT, the US is footing the bill for 70% of the NATO military defense costs. How nice that the government of Germany can afford to pay for free healthcare and a free college education for every German citizen while they are leeching off the US for their defense against the threat of “Totalitarianism” from Russia, while they are doing this to their own citizens already. And laughing about it.
Don’t blame the German people for what is happening in Germany. Their current government is a fake democracy that was designed from the ground up by the Global American Empire to keep Germans from having any say in their own governance. Germany, like most European heritage countries INCLUDING AMERICA, is ruled over by lickspittle traitors who cooperate with globalists to destroy and replace their own peoples.
It is easy to understand why the German government is rushing headlong into totalitarianism. They are complicit in the genocidal replacement of their own people and they fear righteous justice. All Democrats and most Republicans at the country/federal level in the ‘United States’ are just as guilty.
True.
The video just keeps buffering, so click the link ‘Watch on X’ to watch. Funny.
Jan 6
by another name
-same twisted…
oppressive game
“This supernova blast of Trumpian sunlight”
Beautiful!
So tell me how it came to pass that propaganda and fake news are deemed the acceptable standard, while real news is rejected as “disinformation?”
And who has appointed themselves as arbiters of truth? Why, it is none other than those who regularly disseminate propaganda and FAKE news!
You just can’t make this stuff up.
The uniparty must be testing a “free speech leads to genocide” theme to see if it catches on. How ridiculous. What was especially amusing to me about Vance’s remarks is that the European speech crackdowns were encouraged by the Biden administration and likely supported financially by USAID or some other similar group. But of course European leaders can’t say that. You know they must be steaming mad at the outcome of our presidential election.
This is truly a fight between Good and Evil. President Trump is an Angel of The Lord.
Evil is contagious and this evil mindset has embedded into people much like during the rise of the Nazi supporters in WWII.
Pray without ceasing and do your part to fight on the side of Good.
Pull every last one of our troops out of Germany…you know they’ll target them.
And I think their needs to be a warning on the US government website about traveling to Germany.
It almost sounds like The Globalist/Marxists/Communists European Union created the Digital Services Act for the purpose of overturning elections it doesn’t like. Free Speech is no longer allowed, especially if you don’t tote the party line and vote the way we want you to.
“Could The EU Overturn The German Election Results If The AfD Does Well?”
Excerpts:
This issue takes on even greater relevancy in relation to the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), which was adopted in 2022 and entered into force in 2024. Among its provisions, the DSA requires online platforms operating within the EU to censor content at the Brussels bureaucrats’ behest when it allegedly violates EU law. The DSA likewise seeks greater transparency in terms of the sources of political advertising.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/could-eu-overturn-german-election-results-if-afd-does-well
Margaret and the 60-minutes lady wearing brown blouses is a nice touch.
Brown Shirts
good catch!
We need to be more like the Nazis to stop the Nazis.
-Leftists everywhere
From the article above …. “We are only one generation from a time when the German ‘Stasi’ monitored the speech and communication of German citizens in order to maintain a brutally oppressive totalitarian state. ”
The true irony is the German People elected EX-Members of the East German Government. Specifically those responsible for brainwashing Young West Germans. Then ELECTED the West Germans Brainwashed by East German Youth Minster Angela Merkel to succeed her.
We are not “a generation away from the Stasi” … the Stasi were ELECTED to govern Germany in 2005, under Merkel’s leadership.
East Germany is still the winner of the cold war battle between East and West Germany at this point.
It is also well known that Ex-Nazi’s willing changed their swastika armbands for hammer & sickle armbands after the war. The only difference between a German Nazi Socialist and a Russian Communist Socialist was … the Russians won the war.
Yes dummy. I think there’s a difference between not giving a reporter a seat in the WH press briefing room and jailing people for dissenting views. The latter is a threat to free speech, the former is not. Hope that helps!
About 30 years ago a gentleman published a book claiming that according to his measurements of kiln sizes etc there could not have been 6 million people exterminated and the numbers had to be smaller although he didn’t deny there were many many deaths.
All hell broke loose and I think that was the start of the German laws basically forbidding free speech which have spread all round the world in the guise of ‘human rights’ laws and tribunals which are now stopping people from ‘offending’ others.
Great Britain now is jailing people for standing and ‘thinking’ prayers. One religion is unofficially free from these laws hence rape gangs run free and jailing of Tommy Robinson.
We’ve seen what happened in Canada with the truckers having their bank accounts seized.
New Zealand has jailed a Govt official who drew attention to the mortality rates of certain batches of covid 19 injections and Australian clergy have been very careful since two pastors were dragged before the human rights commission also about 30 years ago after people from the ‘protected’ religion entered their church and objected to the topic being preached.
Review her rambling from CBS’ inaugural coverage. She kept wondering where the ‘color’ was. One toad stool.
Let’s see, the Germans started two world wars, murdered and plundered millions of Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, mentally disabled and anyone who dared to oppose them. Maybe it’s a cultural thing.
The translation for the photograph above of the East German Secret Policeman in the room with tape recorders is:
“The spools of tape rustle, the (telephone) connection crackles, and the Secret Policeman listens along.”
When I was in East Berlin with a group of students in the summer 0f 1989, the towers with machine guns were quite visible along highways and “rest areas.”
In East Berlin, the streets were fairly empty, as compared to the hustle and bustle in West Berlin.
My students were looking for ways to spend their (basically worthless) East German marks (one had to buy $25.00 of them to be able to visit): spending the marks was difficult because shops were hard to find and if one of any kind was found, they contained nothing of interest.
Even restaurants and grocery stores were almost invisible.
Of interest were curious looking telephone booths with mirrors stationed on street corners every so often.
My students asked me why mirrors were on a telephone booth in a city with few pedestrians of any kind.
I explained: “They are booths where the secret police are watching the street through a one-way mirror.”
They were incredulous, until on one street, we saw a uniformed STASI agent emerge from his booth with a lunch box, lock the door behind him, and march away.
Today The Surveillance State would use cameras, microphones, drones, hackers, etc.
The NATO Nazi’s did what Hitler & the Nazis tried to do in WWII, illegally steal Kosovo, ethnically cleanse Krajina of Serbs for a Greater Croatia, start the Bosnian War against the Serbs & Fikrit Abdic’s secular Bosnian Muslims who were their allies, and bomb Belgrade’s Churches,Schools,stores,factories, and bridges just like Hitler did. Thus when the Serbian people called Nato “Nazi’s” they were more than correct.
“Thus the Fuhrer detached Kosovo from Serbia creating, for the first time in history, a neo-Fascist Greater Albania. Hitler also created a Greater Croatia that included Bosnia-Hercegovina, under a regime (the Ustashe) that rivaled the Nazi one for its barbaric cruelty, as witnessed in death camps such as Jasenovac, where hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, Roma and “others” were exterminated.”
Belgrade ’41: Hitler’s Invasion of Serbia, 76 Years Laterhttps://www.linkedin.com/pulse/belgrade-41-hitlers-invasion-serbia-76-years-later-lazarevi%C4%87
“Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.”–Prof. Noam Chomsky
“Noam Chomsky, in an interview this week, says “fortunately” there is “one Western statesman of stature” who is pushing for a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine rather than looking for ways to fuel and prolong it. “His name is Donald J. Trump,” Chomsky says.”
–Glenn Greenwald
Only thing missing from those 4 (yes the CBS stooge, too) is the Nazi SS uniforms.
“I stand up for the things that I have done but I deny most emphatically that my actions were dictated by the desire to subjugate foreign peoples by wars, to murder them, to rob them or to enslave them or to commit atrocities or crimes. The only motive which guided me was my ardent love for my people, its happiness, its freedom and its life. And for this I call on the Almighty and my German people to witness.”–Herman Goering, convincing himself that the Gestapo was actually a Civil Rights NGO
When you hear these liars throw the ultimate Alinsky canard “Nazis” around, it first means they are really desperate, and than think about what the Clinton Admin, UN, NATO did to the Holocaust victim Serbs, and the WWII Nazi groups they aligned with against our old friends & allies the Serbs. The Jewish community should have been the loudest against what was done by the real NATO Nazi’s in the Balkans in the 90’s.
If you click on the link, you will see pictures of the 9/11 terrorists attacks, some of whom were Saudi Arabians who were in Bosnia as US/NATO/UN allies against the Serbs & secular Bosnian Muslims, in NYC, comparing NATO terrorist attacks on Serbia.
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/images/Belgrade-NY/towerhit-bel.jpg
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/images/Belgrade-NY/towerhit-nyc.jpg
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“Once the rulers of a country can create a war atmosphere [such as a Plandemic] in time of peace, can allege that the State is in danger and appeal to all the noblest national instincts, as well as all the basest, it is only in very solidly established countries that the rights of the citizens can be preserved. In Germany these rights vanished almost overnight. Today no one may criticize the dictatorship, either in speech or writing. Voters still go to the polls–in fact, are herded to the polls like sheep–but the method of election has become a fantastic travesty of popular government. A German can vote for the regime, but not against it. If he attempts to indicate disapproval, his ballot paper is reckoned as ‘spoiled’. The tyranny of the ruling junta extends into every department of life. Friends may not greet each other without invoking the name of Hitler. At least on certain days, the very meals that a family eats in the privacy of its home are regulated by decree. The shadow of an all-powerful State falls between parent and child, husband and wife. Love itself is fettered and confined. No marriage, no love relation of any kind is permitted which offends against a narrow and arbitrary code based upon virulent race prejudice. Nor is this all. Even in the sphere of religion the State must intervene. It comes between the priest and his penitent, between the worshipper and the God to whom he prays. And this last, by one of the curious ironies of history, in the land of Luther. The word ‘civilization’ means not only peace by the non-regimentation of the people such as is required in war. Civilization means that officials and authorities, whether uniformed or not, whether armed or not, are made to realize that they are servants and not masters. I judge the civilization of any community by simple tests. What is the degree of freedom possessed by the citizen or subject? Can he think, speak and act freely under well-established, well-known laws? Can he criticize the executive government? Can he sue the State if it has infringed his rights? Are there also great processes for changing the law to meet new conditions?”–Winston Churchill, “What Good’s a Constitution?”
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer (goodreads.com):
“I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state. Though unlike most Germans I had daily access to foreign newspapers, especially those of London, Paris and Zurich, which arrived the day after publication, and though I listened regularly to the BBC and other foreign broadcasts, my job necessitated the spending of many hours a day in combing the German press, checking the German radio, conferring with Nazi officials and going to party meetings. It was surprising and sometimes consternating to find that notwithstanding the opportunities I had to learn the facts and despite one’s inherent distrust of what one learned from Nazi sources, a steady diet over the years of falsifications and distortions made a certain impression on one’s mind and often misled it.
No one who has not lived for years in a totalitarian land can possibly conceive how difficult it is to escape the dread consequences of a regime’s calculated and incessant propaganda. Often in a German home or office or sometimes in a casual conversation with a stranger in a restaurant, a beer hall, a café, I would meet with the most outlandish assertions from seemingly educated and intelligent persons. It was obvious that they were parroting some piece of nonsense they had heard on the radio or read in the newspapers. Sometimes one was tempted to say as much, but on such occasions, one was met with such a stare of incredulity, such a shock of silence, as if one had blasphemed the Almighty, that one realized how useless it was even to try to make contact with a mind which had become warped and for whom the facts of life had become what Hitler and Goebbels, with their cynical disregard for truth, said they were.”…….
A very good book, very well written, captivating. A “you are there” feeling.
Perhaps Germany should look at the Beer Hall Putsch and the five year sentence that Hitler rec’d (where he wrote Mein Kamph) and was released after only 8 months (sound familiar?).
CBS as it is today should be put out of business. Germany is lost. I guess Britain is, too. Why even bother with NATO? There isn’t much there that we need to be protecting. Or economically supporting. Time to cut bait.
Its like a window into 1935
I’m shocked at the stupidity of Margret Brennan. Shouldn’t be though. During the Nazi era, what happened to people speaking out against the regime? Off to a concentration camp as a political prisoner. Free speech was not tolerated at all.
I hope Trump 45-47 refuses to settle his CBS lawsuit and is awarded a nine figure settlement that effectively destroys CBS as a broadcast network.
The German view of “Free Speech” sounds like Sharia Law to me.