Posted on 12/30/2022 9:43:00 AM PST by 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.
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Many of them are deep state government agents who have infiltrated the site.
He's locked down the Big Three; religion, opposition politics and the media.
You don't need these regulations when the media is already on your side...Ask Joe.
People around here aren’t pro Putin. We do understand that calling people who want the US to quit this funding and wrongdoing in Ukraine “pro Putin” makes you feel better about your support for Biden, RINOs and the WEF.
Most of us tolerate it because it is as old schtick by now. By posting and cheerleading propaganda for the Deep State and their boy Zelensky you just have to live with seeing pics of Z doing his gay turn on dance.
You are the people who are supporting the people into pedo, gay porn and twisted sex.
Exactly. He is doing Soros’ ... I mean God’s work.
Yep. And some of them become positively unhinged when that is pointed out because they’re trying to hide it.
I like that we’ve always had posters from other counties here, but the ones who are pretending to be Americans are the slimebags.
I had one copious Uke spammer start freaking out and posting FR’s rules the other day because I asked her what her native language is. She’s one of those who cut & pastes almost everything, but when she tries to go outside of that, there’s that definite detectable ESL aspect.
Her tantrum was hilarious. Oh, and she never answered my question. 😏
MeganC or MeghanMcC?
Do they pay you in Hvrnya or greenbacks? Probably greenbacks now. They fall off the truck as Zee has them shipped straight from Kiev Airport to Zurich.
Wait! Why is that controversial to The New York Times? After all, they are all in for Big Tech censoring conservatives.
And they ignore what should be big news when it involves one of their guys, like ignoring the crimes committed and described in Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Sadly, Tagline is very accurate.
Now there’s an apt description.
“and you are clarifying what he is...thanks”
I tend to embrace the argument that you folks make about him.
I mean let’s say that everything you folks say about Zelensky is true. Like he’s a ‘faggot’, homo, globohomo, Nazi, neo-Nazi, corrupt, globalist, comedian, incompetent, grifter, and etc.
Really, let’s say that is all true.
Then what’s that say about the military genius named Vladimir Putin who can’t defeat this man?
I get paid in blackberry pies. They’re much more valuable than any fiat currency.
Thank you. I thought it was fitting.
I am against both sides of that war.
You missed this, from me:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4119615/posts?page=9#9
Whoa he’s literally Abraham Lincoln!
You pro-gay porn Zelensky people sure love to ignore Zelensky’s issues, doncha?
She's one of those Ukie religious hypocrites who loves to virtue signal by asking everyone to pray while she wallows in War Blood. I don't go near her threads as she's always having posts pulled.
“Most are posting from places other than America.”
Prove it.
Always posting about gay porn, aren't you.
Didn't you warn a poster about this, for fear your kids would be looking over your shoulder while reading the forum?
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