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Sounds like they had a legitimate question for the ambassador who reacted badly - which is no surprise for someone in this administration.
When America is sending their diplomats they're not sending their best!
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Sounds like they had a legitimate question for the ambassador who reacted badly - which is no surprise for someone in this administration.
So a long article about them being kicked out and all they detail about their own actions is that "we asked him about it"? I'm not sure what "tacitly threatened" means, either.
If they want sympathy, they probably should lay out the details of their actions more clearly. This just reads as some juveniles went to an event, tried to rile up an official (while filming the response in hopes of getting a juicy clip), then were surprised when they were kicked out.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
> So if Bill White, the US ambassador, pays to rent out the park for, I think it was 2 weeks, they can have whoever they want removed from this public park. Including any reporters. That would be by private security not police though. You aren't generally arrested for annoying an event organiser.
If you get trespassed then wouldn't the police get involved?
Depends on the laws in Belgium (I've no idea what they are)... in the UK for example trespass by itself is not a criminal matter, even if somebody refuses to leave your property... they need to be doing something else.
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#25For additional context, tensions are already high surrounding the US ambassador after he directly insulted multiple Belgian politicians and also attempted to interfere with local criminal judicial proceedings.
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#26"Belgian police willingly comply with U.S. ambassador's request, and Belgian police stopped your reporting"
FTFY
> a foreign ambassador had Belgian police remove us
Belgian police removed us.
FTFY again.
The article is making a good point, especially the hilarious irony of all the private companies, and US being complicit in limiting press freedom. But it also fails to recognize the agency and complicitness of the Belgian authorities as well, and makes them out to be some sort of innocent bystandards -- "Oh look those poor Belgians being bullied by the big bad US!" If they didn't want to remove you, they simply could have not.
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#27The Streisand Effect is taking effect in here in terms of surpressing a question has lead to many more people finding out about it, as it should be and I just find some layers of irony about America celebrating its freedom while this whole thing happens because of press freedom. I did some search on freedom250.org and found this interesting piece of TOS: YOU WAIVE AND HOLD HARMLESS THE COMPANY AND ITS AFFILIATES, LIC…
Freedom250 is essentially another of Trump's fundraising bodies.
The congressionally created organization that was supposed to run the 250th events was America 250 - it was created in 2016 (IIRC). When Trump was re-elected, he spun up Freedom250, redirected funds to it, and started accepting bribes.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Media Bias Fact Check has them at center-left alignment and high factual credibility, like the Washington Post and Guardian.
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State-funded journalism - people complain of using taxpayers’ money
Journalism funded by private interests - people complain of bias
Journalism funded by customers - people complain of clickbait to sell more rags
Not sure what your comment is supposed to indicate. That they disclosed a source of funding when most aren’t even bothered to?
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Media Bias Fact Check has them at center-left alignment and high factual credibility, like the Washington Post and Guardian.
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They detail the work they did with that grant money here:
https://www.journalismai.info/programmes/innovation/innovati...
Looks like it built an AI editing assistant with Google News and Polis.
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#30free speech, I fear, is in retreat
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