You Meme. You make Putin cry.
Posted on 04/10/2015 11:59:07 AM PDT by lowbridge
In post-Soviet Russia, you don’t make memes. Memes make (or unmake?) you.
That is, at least, the only conclusion we can draw from an announcement made this week by Russia’s three-year-old media agency/Internet censor Roskomnadzor, which made it illegal to publish any Internet meme that depicts a public figure in a way that has nothing to do with his “personality.”
Sad Keanu? Nope.
Sad Putin? Absolutely not.
“These ways of using [celebrities’ images] violate the laws governing personal data and harm the honor, dignity and business of public figures,” reads the policy announcement from Roskomnadzor.
To be clear, this isn’t a new law passed by parliament or anything — it’s just a (pretty startling) clarification of existing policy, published to the popular social network Vkontakte. According to Russian media, the announcement came in light of a lawsuit filed by the Russian singer Valeri Syutkin, who sued an irreverent Wikipedia-style culture site over an image macro that paired his picture with some less-than-tasteful lyrics from another artist’s song. On Tuesday, a Moscow judge ruled for Syutkin, prompting the Roskomnadzor to publish an update to its “personal data laws.”
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Prepare yourself.
The memes are coming.
This is the vision for America, and the world.
We will need a new internet.
Wow, Putin needs to pull up his big-boy britches and take criticism like a man.
I’m sure his minions here will see this as another magical step forward for humanity.
Gonna backfire on you Puty.
In Putinist Russia...
If anyone thinks this was driven by a public figure other than the one at the top, I’ve got some land just offshore in Florida I’d love to pitch to you.
It’s nice to know that there are people less free than us, but scary to look at what lies at the bottom of the slippery slope we are on.
You Meme. You make Putin cry.
That makes me a sad Putin.
Merkel is going “Girl, please, compared to mine yours are raisins.”
Thumbs up for sure
Dang she is coming right towards him and he just stands there, doesn’t even flinch.
Obammy would have squealed like a little girl and ducked behind a man to protect him.
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