A Slow Poison Attacking Democracy: Facebook Generation Fights Hungarian Media Law
8:26am GMT, Wednesday, 5 January 2011
As Hungary takes over the rotating presidency of the European Union, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has introduced a new law aimed at gagging the media. The Facebook generation is up in arms. But Orbán remains largely unchallenged in his country, where most people have other worries.
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