June 7th, 2009

StudiVZ.net shut down Zeitgeist groups


studivz_logoA branch of a German media giant – Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, have closed down Zeitgeist groups on their social networking platofrm StudiVZ, under the far-fetched accusation that TZM promotes antisemitism. German StudiVZ is a close equivalent to Facebook. Some of their Zeitgeist Movement groups have counted around 10,000 users.  This is the letter that the admins of thoes groups have received:

Hello,

We deleted your group “ZG-revolution.de”. So called ZG groups are no longer accepted in studiVZ. Anyhow, we want to give you the reason for our action. It is not our intension to supress alternative opinions or news, but we see with worries the developement of new theories that have been pushed, for example by the ZG movies.
The idea of gray eminences, elites or secret societies that control politics from behind the curtain is not new. The ZG movies extend these ideas to the economic system. And here the circle of the history of conspiracy theories closes: latent antisemitism, which shines through many of the formulated theories. For example the idea of the bad, grupping capital, which is responsible for the financial crisis and also patronage and similar means to take influence into world politic to control and guide them in their interest.
We will not explain or discuss this antisemitism, because we expect the group founders to be aware of the problematic content of their group themes. We urge you to not found any new groups with this topic or you account and profil will be deleted.

Thanks for you attention, the VZ team.

Their out of merit decision would not occur if they would take a moment to read what The Zeitgeist Movement is about, or even read through the official FAQ

StudiVz took a loong leep to compare TZM with anitsemitism, and at the same time they do not want to explain ther resoning, and threaten the user further deletion. Then again, they “thank you” the user politley for his attention. Can you get any more contradictorily?



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Media Ownership of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck 
Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck in Wikipedia