Zelensky signs a controversial law to regulate the news media.

NY Times ^ | 12/30/22 | Anushka Patil

[JonPreston]

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has signed off on legislation that would significantly expand the government’s regulatory power over the news media, a measure that journalists have warned will erode press freedom.

Mr. Zelensky, whose administration has been criticized for undermining press freedoms, ordered the drafting of a law increasing media regulation in 2019.

The measure was passed by Ukraine’s Parliament earlier this month along with a spate of other bills that lawmakers say were intended to help the country meet the European Union’s legislative conditions for membership. The bills included measures to protect the rights of national minorities. Mr. Zelensky signed the media regulation bill into law on Thursday, the Ukrainian media reported.

The media regulation bill expands the authority of Ukraine’s state broadcasting regulator, the National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting, to cover the online and print news media. It gives the regulator the power to fine media outlets, revoke their licenses, temporarily block certain online media outlets without a court order, and request that social media platforms and search giants like Google remove content that violates the law, the Ukrainian news media has reported.

[jacknhoo]

Fascists are going to be fascist — nobody should be surprised. He been a fascist since being put in power.

[mylife]

heres vlody in drag playing piano...

Trumps fault!!!

[mylife]

some wild turkey and a cigar please

[qaz123]

So Zelensky is censoring the free flow of information?

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Reason # Eleventy-Seven why globalist control freaks (and the DOD and State Department shills who post here) love the homo.

[sport]

They do. And they get mad as a wet sitting hen when that is pointed out. As do Biden worshipers.

[Republican Wildcat]

So along with censoring the media, this next Churchill/Reagan has banned Christianity and opposition political parties. Dictatorship: Zelenskyy Bans Political Opposition, Seizes Media Control

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[JonPreston]

And in comes the Republican Wildcat acting the part of a 🤡