Attacking public broadcasters is a pretty standard playbook of the far-right and even Conservatives - the latter in Germany for example killed off fibre buildou

Attacking public broadcasters is a pretty standard playbook of the far-right and even Conservatives - the latter in Germany for example killed off fibre buildout under Kohl in favor of cable TV/radio because they wanted private broadcasters as competition against a "too left" public TV [1]. The consequences of that decision haunt us to this day, with many households still getting internet access via decades-old twisted pair phone lines. [1] https://netzpolitik.org/2018/danke-helmut-kohl-kabelfernsehen-statt-glasfaserausbau/ https://netzpolitik.org/2018/danke-helmut-kohl-kabelfernsehe...