{"podcast":{"title":"Kim Iversen on Odysee","slug":"kim-iversen-on-odysee-7144753","podcast_index_feed_id":7144753,"rss_url":"https://odysee.com/$/rss/@KimIversen:d","website_url":"https://odysee.com/@KimIversen:d","image_url":"https://thumbnails.lbry.com/UCoJTOwZxbvq8Al8Qat2zgTA","author":"Kim Iversen","episode_count":50,"summary":"I don't \"fall in line\" when the line leads to bullshit.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T22:18:26.540754+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kim-iversen-on-odysee-7144753"},"episode":{"title":"Don't Look to China for Censorship — Look to GERMANY","slug":"don-t-look-to-china-for-censorship-look-to-germany","published_at":"2026-07-17T22:47:05+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kim-iversen-on-odysee-7144753/don-t-look-to-china-for-censorship-look-to-germany","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kim-iversen-on-odysee-7144753","url":"https://odysee.com/don%27t-look-to-china-for-censorship-%E2%80%94:17c0057567e9032528ea6a225231b89bbba7e2eb","audio_url":"https://odysee.com/$/rss/media/don%27t-look-to-china-for-censorship-%E2%80%94/17c0057567e9032528ea6a225231b89bbba7e2eb/487045.mp4","summary":"Protect your wealth with precious metals! Call American Hartford Gold today & get up to $20,000 in free silver on your 1st order! Call 866-584-3884 or Text KIM to 65532, or click here: https://offers.americanhartfordgold.com/content-affiliate/?Leadsource=Affiliate&utm_sfcampaign=701Nv00000SV2yLIAT If you want to know how far a government will go to police speech, don't look to China — look to Germany. Satirist and playwright C.J. Hopkins, an American who's lived in Berlin for years, is back on the show with news that Germany has indicted him again — this time not for two tweets, but for writing, publishing, and advertising his book at all. He walks Kim through the whole saga: three armed police at his door, his computer seized, his wife and cats terrorized — over the cover art of a book that used a Covid mask stretched across the swastika of William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, meant as a warning about authoritarianism, not an endorsement of it. He covers the two tweets that first got him charged with "spreading Nazi propaganda," his acquittal, the prosecutor's appeal, the appellate trial held under terrorist-level security by three judges who'd clearly already decided, and the Constitutional Court refusing to even review his case — no explanation given. The court's own reasoning is the stunning part: they conceded he's not a Nazi and spent his life writing anti-authoritarian work — the "problem" was that his art criticized the Covid measures and the government. Meanwhile Der Spiegel covers and other books with swastikas sell freely in German bookstores. As Hopkins puts it, this isn't a legal story, it's a power story — "we'll crush you" is the message, and it's t…","meta_description":"Protect your wealth with precious metals! Call American Hartford Gold today & get up to $20,000 in free silver on your 1st order! Call 866-584-3884 or…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2960,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/kim-iversen-on-odysee-7144753/episodes/don-t-look-to-china-for-censorship-look-to-germany/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kim-iversen-on-odysee-7144753/don-t-look-to-china-for-censorship-look-to-germany.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}