{"id":60395,"date":"2025-08-01T06:53:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T04:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=60395"},"modified":"2025-08-03T06:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T04:51:08","slug":"counting-stars-will-not-be-in-the-socialist-governments-register-to-control-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/08\/01\/counting-stars-will-not-be-in-the-socialist-governments-register-to-control-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting Stars will not be in the socialist government's register to control the media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leftist government of Pedro S\u00e1nchez continues with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/09\/17\/pedro-sanchezs-gag-plan-imitates-francos-and-putins-measures-to-control-the-media\/\">its \"Gag Plan\" to control the media<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/09\/17\/pedro-sanchezs-gag-plan-imitates-francos-and-putins-measures-to-control-the-media\/\">Pedro Sanchez's 'Gag Plan' imitates Franco's and Putin's measures to control the media<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/04\/30\/sanchez-wants-to-muzzle-the-media-he-does-not-control-we-will-not-shut-up\/\">S\u00e1nchez wants to muzzle the media he does not control: we will not shut up!<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Let us remember that this plan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/04\/30\/sanchez-wants-to-muzzle-the-media-he-does-not-control-we-will-not-shut-up\/\">imitates measures taken by the Franco and Putin dictatorships to control the media<\/a>, specifically <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vozpopuli.com\/espana\/politica\/el-chantaje-del-gobierno-a-los-medios-impedira-recibir-dinero-publico-a-los-que-no-se-inscriban-en-el-registro.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a registry to blackmail the media<\/a>: the government says that registration will not be mandatory, but media outlets that do not register will not be able to receive any type of public funds <\/strong>. In this way, Pedro S\u00e1nchez's cabinet intends to reverse the order of factors inherent to a democracy: <strong>the media, which have the duty to oversee the government, will be controlled by the government they are supposed to oversee<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to being <strong>an authoritarian measure<\/strong>, typical of anti-democratic regimes that do not respect freedom of information and freedom of expression, with this registration, <strong>S\u00e1nchez is carrying out an operation of revenge against the media that have uncovered<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/06\/12\/socialist-corruption-in-spain-briefly-explained-to-people-from-other-countries\/\">the socialist corruption scandals<\/a>, scandals that are cornering the president of the government, that have degraded his personal image inside and outside of Spain and that are causing a collapse of his party in the polls. Let's remember that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/06\/16\/sanchez-his-mafia-like-exercise-of-power-and-the-silence-of-a-large-part-of-journalism\/\">a year ago S\u00e1nchez threatened these media outlets with changing the laws to harm them<\/a>, and now he is determined to carry out his threat despite the fact that lately he doesn't even have a sufficient majority in Congress to approve his initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>With this record, a dangerous situation is created in Spain: <strong>a government controlling the media and laying the groundwork for harassing dissidents and the companies that invest in them<\/strong>, all under a demand for transparency that seems very cynical coming from <a href=\"https:\/\/theobjective.com\/medios\/2025-05-25\/gobierno-records-opacidad-informativa-primer-trimestre\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a government that is breaking all records for opacity<\/a>, <strong>refusing to provide information that it is required to do by law<\/strong>. In other words, S\u00e1nchez intends to impose on the media an obligation of transparency that he, as a ruler, systematically fails to comply with, violating the law.<\/p>\n<p>I don't know what the registration criteria are, but whatever they are and whether they also include sites like this one, I can tell you one thing. <strong>Counting Stars has been active for 21 years. This opinion space has more circulation than many Spanish media outlets<\/strong>, and two of its characteristics since its founding are freedom and independence. <strong>Counting Stars is not at the service of any government because it neither requests nor receives any type of public funding<\/strong>, which is the best guarantee that any politician has no power to influence what is published here in any way.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, <strong>Counting Stars will not be in that media register, because it will continue to neither ask for nor receive any money from the State.<\/strong> This site will remain steadfast in denouncing the authoritarianism, corruption, and mafia-like ways of the S\u00e1nchez government. <strong>Counting Stars will continue to be a free and independent space for monitoring political power,<\/strong> especially when those in power refuse to be accountable to the people and make efforts to hide from us what they spend our money on. <strong>So, the socialist mafia can shove that registry wherever they want. Long live Spain and long live Liberty!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/lamoncloa_gob_es\/54676392580\/in\/dateposted\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">La Moncloa<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leftist government of Pedro S\u00e1nchez continues with its \u00abGag Plan\u00bb to control the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10689],"tags":[693,2721,22730,10796],"class_list":["post-60395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-logbook","tag-psoe","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-pedro-sanchezs-gag-plan","tag-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}