Russians could face jail for not deleting news judged 'fake'

[GURPS]

The law comes in the context of an ongoing crackdown on internet freedoms in Russia, where social media remains one of the few places the opposition can organise.

Those who break the rules outlined in the bill could also be subject to a 50,000-ruble ($740, 630-euro) fine, according to an approved text distributed on the judicial site pravo.ru.

Russia has in recent years increasingly criminalised online content, frequently jailing people for sharing or publishing information deemed extremist or illegal, including for calls for opposition protests and jokes deemed offensive to particular social groups.

The law currently forbids the sharing of content judged extremist, though rights groups say this label is also applied to opposition material.

"This new law, if it is adopted, will constitute a new attack on freedom of expression in Russia," Agora International Human Rights Group lawyer Irina Khrunova told AFP.


Russians could face jail for not deleting news judged 'fake'

 

[BOP]

If the leftists in this country have their way, we'll see the same thing here. They've already got a complicit social media practicing a de facto censorship of conservative voices.

http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2018-08-29.html

Apart from building the wall, President Trump's most important act as president so far was his attack on internet censorship this week.

The left controls all the cultural institutions -- the establishment media, corporate America, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, public schools and universities. The only breach in their total dominion of the flow of information is the internet.

So now they're fixated like a laser beam on private citizens talking to one another online.

Why can't people accept the officially certified news as delivered by respected truth-tellers like Brian Williams, CNN and NBC -- the network that censored Juanita Broaddrick and illegally leaked the "Access Hollywood" tape?

Liberals assessed the situation and correctly concluded: People are learning facts on the internet that we've been withholding from them, so now they don't agree with us. THIS MUST BE STOPPED!

 

[GURPS]

If the leftists in this country have their way, we'll see the same thing here. They've already got a complicit social media practicing a de facto censorship of conservative voices.

IMHO Progressives don't really want to open that can of worms, [anytime soon]
better to have Twitter / Facebook / Google - shadow banning or filtering Opposing views out rather than handing that POWER to the Gov. to be used against them later

 

[BOP]

If the Russians hadn't screwed up the coronation of Hill-dawg, the demon rats would have never had to worry ever again.