Welcome

  • December 18, 2021
  • István
  • 18 Comments

I would like to welcome everybody here on Hungarian News. This blog will live from the input of many. Who wants to tell us something about Hungary should feel free contact. As long as copyrights are not violated (especially with permission of the author) translations of interesting pieces are very welcome as well.

Concerning freedom of speech I would like to handle a wide interpretation. We are all adults here and should behave as those. On monitoring for hate speech I would take the human rights as guide. I can live with another “Orbán strong” statement, but not with humiliation of all who are against the regime. Those who have a voice to answer don’t need the same level of protection as those who have not. Of topic or not should not be the central question. What in the past has been off topic was so often the topic of the next days that it really should be welcomed! But it should all be useful content with at least some context with Hungary, if I may remind what happened on Hungarian Spectrum in the past a naked man worth writing about would have been a former MEP hanging at a gutter – not that nameless one a user was completely obsessed with.

For keeping the exchange of thoughts easy I want to avoid a registration of commentators. The 1st comment will not be published without moderation, thereafter it will be published immediately. This will make monitoring more difficult, but registration will prohibit too many to take part of a discussion in the Hungarian reality. To follow the heritage of Éva in the best sense registration seems no option to me. Although more work this would be the better option. Of course I will decide differently in case there will be the need to do so.

Since I am not available for a one-man-show a group of people should decide and guidelines will be needed. Common sense rules. Better to discuss a topic to the depth than to avoid discussion. As I said before: I will need your help.

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Pantanifan
Pantanifan
December 18, 2021 12:45

Hey István, thanks a million for setting this up. I hope we can carry on discussing Hungarian politics and news for many years to come. Good luck with this new venture!

wolfi7777
wolfi7777
December 18, 2021 13:39

István, thank you very much!
I surely hope that you and us can continue in the legacy of our dear Eva.
And now let’s wait for the people to join us – trolls excluded of course … 🙂

Brigitta
Brigitta
December 18, 2021 13:47

Wonderful! Congratulations Istvan!
Sounds all positively democratic.
Thank you so much for setting this up!

zsuka
zsuka
December 18, 2021 16:06

Thank you very much for your work. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your efforts.

thesetampe
thesetampe
December 18, 2021 17:19

István, this is excellent news! Thank you very much for setting up this site. I like the reference to Eva’s Hungarian Spectrum in the top right corner. 👍

wolfi7777
wolfi7777
December 18, 2021 17:53

Not a real problem but maybe typical for the first effort – which is really good!
Date and time of the comments look a bit strange to me ???
202113:47 of course means 2021 13.47
Which timezone are you in, István?

Phil_S_Stine
Phil_S_Stine
December 19, 2021 07:43
Reply to  wolfi7777

Just needs a space between the year and the hour; Istvan said the site is set up in Iceland so the same timezone as the UK, so an hour behind Hungary.

SandF
SandF
December 18, 2021 19:31

Istvan,
The old Hungarian Spectrum could be mentioned in your welcome message.
Steven

jan
jan
December 19, 2021 00:12

Thanks a lot, Istvan. This is great news, let´s make something good from it.

Phil_S_Stine
Phil_S_Stine
December 19, 2021 07:36

Well this is a nice surprise; I’ve been a bit crook the last week or so, and have been of the internet. I didn’t see Istvan’s offer to set this up. Koszonom Istvan. (and before wolfie tells me I’m not a proper Hungarian, yeah I know diacritcs).

wolfi7777
wolfi7777
December 19, 2021 11:59

@Phil (and totally OT):
As a German I can count my self lucky to have some diacritics on my keyboard.
It’s funny that many people here call me Wolfie – that’s the Jewish version of my name which I remember from a very nice Jewish restaurant that we visited many years ago in Miami Beach.
The official German version is Wolf though my wife calls me Wolfi.I tell Hungarians: Farkas vagyok!
And when I’m angry

Ferenc
December 19, 2021 16:33

Great work Istvan! Brilliant!
As mentioned at the moment I’m very occupied with something else, but when I have time I’ll try to provide content [have ideas about Coronavirus timeline for OV’s Hungary, incl.developments in measures, communiation, manipulations in data, etc.]

Ferenc
December 19, 2021 16:35
Reply to  Ferenc

Noticed now that avatars stayed the same [at least mine, and some familiar ones!]

Istvan (Chicago)
Istvan (Chicago)
December 19, 2021 17:25

Thanks for your efforts in creating this site.

Danye
Danye
December 19, 2021 20:59

This is good. Happy to be part of this. Eva would be pleased! 😀😇

Luis G. Prado
Luis G. Prado
December 20, 2021 08:15

I’m very happy to see that the Hungarian Spectrum spirit lives on! Many thanks to István for setting up this blog. Hopefully enough HS regulars will drop by and do their bit to make Hungarian News a great place for summaries and analysis of Hungarian politics. I myself was only a very occasional commentator in HS, feeling that most of what I could add had already been said, but I will endeavour to become a more frequent commentator here.