{"id":69689,"date":"2023-11-03T22:08:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T22:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eco123.info\/en\/?p=69689"},"modified":"2023-11-03T22:08:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T22:08:46","slug":"freedom-of-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eco123.info\/en\/editorial-2-en\/freedom-of-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom of speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday 4th November 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Did you know that we\u2019re currently celebrating our anniversary? It was in 2013 that we published the first edition, and right now we are working on the printed edition, at the same time as appearing online, too, on a weekly basis, every Saturday. In the autumn of 2023, we are doing all this without so-called SOCIAL<\/em> media. You might well ask why ECO123 has not been using, nor felt the need to use, so-called \u201eSOCIAL<\/em> Media\u201c over the past ten years.<\/p>\n

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Dear Readers<\/strong><\/p>\n

What and who would you say is truly SOCIAL<\/em>? We really should take a closer look at the word SOCIAL<\/em>. You won\u2019t find ECO123 on Instagram<\/em>, on facebook <\/em>or on X <\/em>(formerly known as \u2026 who cares). And it won\u2019t be on Tik-Tok<\/em> that you\u2019ll find us either, guaranteed. How does it work, ECO123 completely forgoing the above-mentioned SOCIAL <\/em>media? It\u2019s simple, really. Just don\u2019t down the firewater<\/em>. Stay off the stuff. Take this counsel to heart. Live alcohol-<\/em>free. Just consider your own good self, your strengths, and throw the smartphone into the next available bin. Get rid of that trash the radically easiest way. Separate yourself from the trash, avoid waste instead of separating waste. Being a little more mature by now, ten years ago I decided to no longer indulge in time wasting<\/em>. I remained a journalist, forgoing so-called SOCIAL<\/em> media. And I can\u2019t say I miss them.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s only and exclusively on our own website that we carry the ECO123 online edition, clean, without becoming dependent on facebook & Cie.<\/em> Neither Mark Zuckerberg nor Elon Musk have been able to convince me so far. There are a lot of reasons for that. We don\u2019t sow hatred, and no hatred is sown on our watch. We don\u2019t give hatred a chance, which means we don\u2019t have to intervene and exercise censorship. We have no neo fascists, no haters of Israel nor enemies of democracy. This has stood us in good stead, without any of the so-called social <\/em>media. We firmly believe in this: for some ten years now we\u2019ve been making our way without the hype and are growing even so, slowly but steadily, sometimes taking two steps forward and one step back. That\u2019s life for you. And this allows us to keep creating ECO123, because we believe in the essential goodness of human beings and want to remain truly social.<\/p>\n

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In the beginning we talked for a long time amongst ourselves whether we shouldn\u2019t at least activate the comment function <\/strong>at www.eco123.info<\/a> and decided, on a trial basis, to not do it. Do we buy a facebook page to present ourselves? No. We have remained true to our position to this day. If you send us a letter to the editor and would like to see this published, we\u2019ll see this done \u2013 within the framework of the laws of the land and the respect due to differing opinions. We value the diversity of opinions \u2013 but not the dictatorship of hate, of conflict, the slaying and threatening using words. We stick to the liberty of expression, the freedom of worship, upholding the integrity and dignity of each of our readers, regardless of their skin colour and opinions, whether heterosexual or homosexual, whether of the Christian, Jewish, Muslim or Buddhist faith. Really that\u2019s all that needs to be said.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not interested in facebook & Cie. <\/em>They are trying to steal our advertising. So let them try. Do you really think that facebook & Cie<\/em> offer their services for free? The currency you pay with are your personal data. You\u2019re being tracked within an inch of your life, for this to be called SOCIAL by 2.2 billion people? As a rule, we at ECO123 do not spy on our readers. We don\u2019t use any tools to find out your preferences, nor do we use this with our advertising clients or other partners. Let me take this opportunity to simply thank you<\/em> for reading www.eco123.info<\/a> (some of you have been doing so for ten years) and maybe even subscribing, for 12 euro a year (now only \u20ac 1 per month): our heartfelt thanks go out to you. That\u2019s what I wanted to say really. We\u2019ll be working in an ever more climate-friendly way. Which is why our printed version will be appearing only once a year, with your weekly read available at https:\/\/eco123.info<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Our server and website run on solar power. We are in the process of planting a Botanical Garden with many native trees that convert CO2 into oxygen. At the moment we are at the planning stage (2024) for our own solar power station. For we also represent a local energy cooperative. From 2025 on we want to locally produce clean and affordable power (autoconsumo) for some 100 Portuguese households, a school, a kindergarden and a supermarket. This is an initiative you could participate in if you\u2019d like to live a more climate-friendly life. Climate-friendly, now that\u2018s SOCIAL, wouldn\u2019t you say?<\/p>\n

Warmest wishes,<\/p>\n

Your Uwe Heitkamp<\/p>\n

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Uwe Heitkamp (62)<\/h3>\n\t\t\ttrained TV journalist, book author and hobby botanist, father of two grown-up children, knows Portugal for 30 years, founder of ECO123. Translations: Dina Ad\u00e3o, John Elliot, Ruth Correia, Patr\u00edcia Lara, Kathleen Becker
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