Possession of pornography is now a criminal offense in Ukraine, Lenta.ru reports, after Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko signed a law to that effect today. Human rights activists and members of the Ukrainian artistic community had asked the president to veto the law.
The draft of the law was prepared by the Ukrainian government. It was passed by the Ukrainian parliament, the Supreme Rada, on June 11.
Now pornography can be kept only “for medical purposes,” according to the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice. The ministry also warns that possession of a large number of identical images will be considered evidence of trading in pornography, which is also criminalized.
Punishment for possession of pornography will include fines and imprisonment for up to three years.
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However this is Ukraine, it’s not any different from Russia. It looks like they like extremism. A Russian girl told me years ago that when she was in school, it was illegal to have a boyfriend or girlfriend. Years later, Russia went to the other extreme and became known as a “Sex Soaked” country. Most porn stars are Russians and Ukrainians. Here is some info:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103×127402
Sex is very much in the mind of Russians and Ukrainians – maybe because of the strict moral code during the Soviet era. I am sure that authorities noticed that things are getting so bad now that they saw the need for this new law.
(Apparently, Kiev is the sex capital of Europe)
This should help postpone your eventual decline.
Ayame, it is not dumb at all, Ukrain has a long-term huge problem with human trafficking, and child pornography, it has been a nest for this filth for a long time, this is a drastic measure, but it is taken for very good reasons, make no mistake about it.
And you actually think this will bring about a change? It won’t, at all. Restricting freedom of expression is never a solution.
I’m pretty certain human trafficking and child pornography have always been illegal in Ukraine, right? Did these things being illegal stop them from occurring in large numbers?
The reasons for problems such as these are diverse, corrupt law enforcement agencies (itself a symptom of a dysfunctional government) are one of them. Why don’t the traffickers and child porn rings get smashed and the perpetrators arrested? Because they have money and can just bribe away every investigator on their tails.
Making something illegal that simply shouldn’t be, just to appeal to moralist zealots and ease the international pressure, is intentionally distracting from the real roots of the problems to make it look like something’s actually being done, and it’s a human rights violation on top of that.
How dumb is this?