Though Western media outlets are whining about these new laws in Russia and complaining about how authoritarian they are, the reality is most Western governments’ laws are even worse
Russian officials are citing authoritarian censorship laws passed by European governments as a justification for passing similar laws restricting free speech in Russia.
From The Moscow Times:
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a controversial set of bills that make it a crime to “disrespect” the state and spread “fake news” online, Russian media reported on Monday.
[…]The legislation will establish punishments for spreading information that “exhibits blatant disrespect for the society, government, official government symbols, constitution or governmental bodies of Russia.”
Online news outlets and users that spread “fake news” will face fines of up to 1.5 million rubles ($22,900) for repeat offenses.
[…]More than 100 journalists and public figures, including human rights activist Zoya Svetova and popular writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya, signed a petition opposing the laws, which they labeled “direct censorship.”
The Kremlin, however, denied the legislation amounts to censorship.
“What’s more, this sphere of fake news, insulting and so on, is regulated fairly harshly in many countries of the world including Europe. It is therefore of course necessary to do it in our country too,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
If you’re an EU-Authoritarian, you literally can’t argue with that logic.
The governments of Sweden and Germany regularly raid people’s homes or drag people into court over “anti-migrant” Facebook posts. Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom are throwing people in prison for watching or sharing video of the mosque attack in Christchurch.
Though Western media outlets are whining about these new laws in Russia and complaining about how authoritarian they are, the reality is most Western governments’ laws are even worse. Additionally, it’s journos who are at the forefront of waging war on the First Amendment here in America.
Yeah well its the age of censorship, communism is back in full force, this time WORLD-WIDE! What is sad though is for those Eastern European countries who have already suffered for more than 50 years into communism, now they got just a small taste of freedom and boom, back to communism again.
What a sad pathetic world we live in. Everybody is competing over who censors the most and restrict more civilian freedoms. It doesn’t matter whose fault is anymore, what matters is that it has come to this. These are the craziest times ever and there is no recovery after this, there is no future and no more technological progress, here is where history ends. The end of the world is upon us.
By 2033, it will be total chaos. What you see now here with all the oppression and censorship and leftists gaining total control of power everywhere, this is nothing compared to what is coming.
Youtuber Black Pilled is right, abandon city life as fast as possible. Go and live in the jungle like an animal. Russia was the only hope but we’re seeing more and more from Russia now swinging left as well. Russia is now also going to the toilet along with the rest of the world. Even North Korea has been pacified, Venezuela is about to fall, everything is gone, Satan wants all nations united, not one can stand alone independent.
Look Putin, nobody says that there is no censorship in the EU, but that doesn’t mean you should do the same, why are you competing over bad things? YOu want to compete with the EU on something? Do it on economy, jobs and manufacturing not on censorship.
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Russia has always been big on censorship. More than Europe. This is nothing new.