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Interestingly there were no major (or minor) media articles about this at all (or at least what I usually follow). Which goes to say that it was either a cover-

by jq-r 3y ago

Interestingly there were no major (or minor) media articles about this at all (or at least what I usually follow). Which goes to say that it was either a cover-up or parts of Croatia don't exist outside of major cities. From my experience its more of the latter as Croatia's public media houses are notoriously terrible and they don't bother reporting on something unless you literally write an article for them.

PeterisP 3y ago
It's simply something so tiny and irrelevant (unless you have a special interest in libertarian experiments) that it doesn't warrant major or minor media articles - from the pictures it looks like the officials enforced a building regulations issue for 2-3 tiny cottages/sheds that somehow involved (but clearly couldn't house) a community of 19 people. Like, that's not news - the outcome of that thing was as expected, no surprises there and such things are routine - every day there are multiple building code enforcements on larger, more significant buildsites. Why should general media care about this one in particular? I'd assert that demolishing some illegally built sheds in the backyard of some locally popular actor, politician or businessman (I'd assume Croatia has hundreds people each of whom are more widely known there than Liberland is) would be far more newsworthy than this, but still likely not newsworthy enough for most media, perhaps only as a filler for some celebrity gossip yellow press.
- jq-r 3y ago
  Oh don't get me wrong, I thought it was just a bit funny and/or ironic because the media will write about even the most mudane things if they are easy to write about. Something happens outside of a major city where nobody was seriously injured, no public figures explicitly involved, or there were no major crimes commited - it's very unlikely it'll end up in the news. I'm 100% sure if this happened near some major city, it would be top 5 news item of that day. But alas, it happened in the middle of nowhere, so it kind of not happened if you get my meaning.
hn_throwaway_99 3y ago
"A cover up"??? "Teeny group of squatters get evicted" isn't exactly headline news in most places.
- jq-r 3y ago
  Please re-read my comment. Just to reiterate; I don't think it was a cover up. It just happened far enough from a major city that nobody bothered to report on it.

by jq-r 3y ago

PeterisP 3y ago

It's simply something so tiny and irrelevant (unless you have a special interest in libertarian experiments) that it doesn't warrant major or minor media articles - from the pictures it looks like the officials enforced a building regulations issue for 2-3 tiny cottages/sheds that somehow involved (but clearly couldn't house) a community of 19 people. Like, that's not news - the outcome of that thing was as expected, no surprises there and such things are routine - every day there are multiple building code enforcements on larger, more significant buildsites. Why should general media care about this one in particular? I'd assert that demolishing some illegally built sheds in the backyard of some locally popular actor, politician or businessman (I'd assume Croatia has hundreds people each of whom are more widely known there than Liberland is) would be far more newsworthy than this, but still likely not newsworthy enough for most media, perhaps only as a filler for some celebrity gossip yellow press.

jq-r 3y ago
Oh don't get me wrong, I thought it was just a bit funny and/or ironic because the media will write about even the most mudane things if they are easy to write about. Something happens outside of a major city where nobody was seriously injured, no public figures explicitly involved, or there were no major crimes commited - it's very unlikely it'll end up in the news. I'm 100% sure if this happened near some major city, it would be top 5 news item of that day. But alas, it happened in the middle of nowhere, so it kind of not happened if you get my meaning.

hn_throwaway_99 3y ago

"A cover up"??? "Teeny group of squatters get evicted" isn't exactly headline news in most places.

jq-r 3y ago
Please re-read my comment. Just to reiterate; I don't think it was a cover up. It just happened far enough from a major city that nobody bothered to report on it.