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Abolishment of Political & Religious State Censorship
Topic Started: Apr 5 2010, 03:58 PM (210 Views)
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June 1842

Prussia has always been a nation that has valued freedom of speach. No doubt because of the many great thinkers that Prussia brought forth. King William IV. has already made state censorship alot less strickt. But he has decided that it needs to be completely let free. In this way newspapers and the arts which the King very much appreciates will flourish.

The King gave this proposal to his Minister early this month. There was some opposition, but after lengthy discussion the Ministers and the King have decided to first test this bill in Berlin. Later expansion might follow.
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August 1842

Up to now, the experiment has been successful receiving a loud applause from liberals across Europe. The King has thus decided that it be enlarged to the whole Mark of Brandenburg.

There have been some ministers who spoke out against this action pointing out that it would stimulate the reproduction of liberal writings.
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September 1842

As the experiment was enlarged to include all of Brandenburg a issue came up. The local Diets, which are chosen by the local people, have until now never been allowed to publish what was being discussed at their meetings. The allowance of the Diets to publish their meetings, is a very liberal step as it actively involves the people with politics, at least on the local level.
Because literacy is very high in Prussia the Ministers of the King, and the King himself is not sure whether this was such a good idea after all. For the moment the experiment will be confined to Brandenburg, to see how the people react to the publishing of the discussions in the diet.
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December 1842
After all the local Diets showed thier full support for this measiure, the King and his ministers have decided to grant freedom of Press, and thus the abolishment of State censorship. However, religious censorship will remain in place.
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February 1843

Now that there are no longer any State censors, the State is looking for new ways trough which they could influence the press. Especially the publishing of pro-government articles is considered necessary.
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March 1843

The government has decided that extra subsidies will covertly be given to newspapers if they publish pro- government articles. This will be done in strict secrecy, and each case will be evaluated separately so that no one abuses this measure.
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1844

With the relaxation of the Censor laws, several South German Liberal newspapers have also opened shop in Prussia, in particular the Rhineland and Berlin. Amongst these newspapers are ones such as Ausburger Allgemeine, they have trigged a boom in the amount of newspapers bought and read, slowly but surely the normal people were gaining knowledge of what was going on beyond their own mark, town or province.
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