After building it 'Trump' border wall, Hungary's RW government wants spies in media outlets.
Hungarian media are demanding the government repeals a draft amendment to the national security law which, they say, would oblige newspapers, TV, radio stations, and online publications to employ covert intelligence officials if required by the authorities.
Index.hu, a Hungarian online publication, broke the story, saying that “content providers” is to mean newspapers or TV broadcasters. The government did not deny the report.
"Recalling the worst Communist times, it [the amendment] wants to place political commissars in editorial [boards]. Their job would probably be to see what kind of information the journalists receive and from where," Adam Mirkoczki, a Jobbik MP on the national security committee, said.
A Socialist MP already submitted another amendment that would carve out this section of the government's proposed text.
https://euobserver.com/political/130974
Conservatives certainly seem to love border walls and restrictions on freedom of the press.
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