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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Go watch the kids.
Now that the press is shut down we can get back to the business of defending Ukraine from Putin’s invitation.
Actually I object to any gay imagery being posted on FR.
Moreover, I object to the hypocrisy of the pro-Putin crowd who celebrate Putin’s laws against homosexual imagery and then they post homosexual imagery on this site.
Besides, if I wanted to see faggotry I’d sign up for DU and not FR.
Festering boils of Biden propaganda on the backside of FR.
Yes indeed
Once again, I have to say, there is no wonder Zelenskyy is called a Nazi or even a Communist.
“Most are posting from places other than America.”
Prove this. This is a very serious claim and other people have been banned for this kind of nonsense.
Yes indeed.
LOL!!
It's painful to read the "if you aren't 100% for Ukraine, you MUST be Pro-Putin." The stupid really does hurt.
O/T, but as a former Army officer, it galls me to see the outpouring of support for this Santos fellow. Yes, I understand it, doesn't mean I need to like it.
It's like the old saying, "two wrongs don't make a right, but three do."
Well it is your boy Zelensky turnin’ on the gays. That should have bothered a person with such strict morals.
I mean they had to really get jazzed over his piano playing routine.
Yep. These people are brutal and bloodthirsty. I see some of them wishing slow, torturous and painful deaths on their enemies, too, such as Russian soldiers.
There are people in positions of power who are very evil and even those I don’t wish slow and painful deaths on. A quick, clean hanging maybe, but people wishing torturous deaths on people makes them just as bad as, if not worse, than their enemies.
Without oversight or appeal.
As much as you like making it.
You like Zelensky’s faggotry, but refuse to talk to it, yet, you get on me for posting a clothed Zelensky, feeling himself out, twice-over, from something he, himself did and published?
That's screwed up, MeganC.
I honestly haven't followed one bit of the Santos drama. I am so over politics, I don't care if he stays or goes. It's a rigged game.
It is incredibly stupid and short-sighted of them. I just laugh at them as they dig their heels in, pushing that crap.
I’m pretty sure they’re taught that in troll training.
100%
Mr Demokrazy.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.