In hungary, people talk very freely. But i does not mean that there's actual freedom of speech in the country. If you are a media magnate who wants to run a media outlet that is critical of theove, either you're going to be marginal or you'll be destroyed. The government will audit you repeatedly. They will hound you by making sure you don't get ad revenue. And this pattern is repeated over and over again. So it is an authoritarian system that is designed to mimic certain freedoms that democratic countries have,. What has rondy santis done that reminds you of victor orbon? What's the american analogue here?
The Conservative Political Action Conference, which is like Republican Coachella, is usually held stateside, but this week it's throwing a party in Budapest, Hungary. Noel King got kicked out.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan with Haleema Shah, edited by Jolie Myers and Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Victoria Dominguez, engineered by Paul Mounsey and Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Noel King.
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