Privacy in the public eye
I wonder whether the National Council for Radio and Television (ESR) really thought about its decision to summon the trappers Snik, Toquel and Rack over their lyrics, which the watchdog described as being "steeped in hate and images of violence"? The issue here is not just about the very reasonable concerns about censorship which have been expressed in this newspaper and on other platforms with regard to this decision. It is also about the violation of the artists' privacy. To explain…
The National Council for Radio and Television stopped making its decisions public last summer. The state has a transparency website, Diavgeia, where anyone can find how many rolls of toilet paper the independent authority has purchased and from whom, and how much money it spends of staff transportation, but there is no way to find out anything about the key part of its job, meaning what...
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