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Zelensky signs a controversial law to regulate the news media.
NY Times ^ | 12/30/22 | Anushka Patil

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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To: MeganC

Go watch the kids.


41 posted on 12/30/2022 10:15:43 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: JonPreston

Now that the press is shut down we can get back to the business of defending Ukraine from Putin’s invitation.


42 posted on 12/30/2022 10:16:00 AM PST by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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To: ConservativeMind

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.


43 posted on 12/30/2022 10:16:24 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: 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.

It's bizarre seeing the NY Times express concern about press freedom in other countries, when they are so ardently in favor of restrictions on free speech in this country.
44 posted on 12/30/2022 10:16:34 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: EEGator

Festering boils of Biden propaganda on the backside of FR.


45 posted on 12/30/2022 10:17:08 AM PST by dforest
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Yes indeed


46 posted on 12/30/2022 10:17:26 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: JonPreston

Once again, I have to say, there is no wonder Zelenskyy is called a Nazi or even a Communist.


47 posted on 12/30/2022 10:17:30 AM PST by caver
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To: JonPreston

“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.


48 posted on 12/30/2022 10:17:41 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: caver
Once again, I have to say, there is no wonder Zelenskyy is called a Nazi or even a Communist.

Yes indeed.

49 posted on 12/30/2022 10:18:12 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: MeganC
This is a very serious claim and other people have been banned for this kind of nonsense.

LOL!!

50 posted on 12/30/2022 10:19:04 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: Allegra; JonPreston
Jon, it appears there are more that agree with you than disagree.

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."

51 posted on 12/30/2022 10:19:46 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It! lol)
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To: MeganC

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.


52 posted on 12/30/2022 10:19:57 AM PST by dforest
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To: JonPreston
She's one of those Ukie religious hypocrites who loves to virtue signal by asking everyone to pray while she wallows in War Blood.

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.

53 posted on 12/30/2022 10:20:00 AM PST by Allegra
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To: JonPreston
I think Zelensky is obviously such a Great Hero and so Saintly, that any Law he signs should be enforced in the United States against The New York Times.

Without oversight or appeal.

54 posted on 12/30/2022 10:20:51 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: MeganC

As much as you like making it.


55 posted on 12/30/2022 10:22:01 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: MeganC; JonPreston
So you instead support faggotry through supporting Zelensky?

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.

56 posted on 12/30/2022 10:22:40 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Night Hides Not
Santos

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.

57 posted on 12/30/2022 10:23:00 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: Night Hides Not; JonPreston
It's painful to read the "if you aren't 100% for Ukraine, you MUST be Pro-Putin." The stupid really does hurt.

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.

58 posted on 12/30/2022 10:23:23 AM PST by Allegra
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To: Allegra
There are people in positions of power who are very evil

100%

59 posted on 12/30/2022 10:24:33 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: JonPreston

Mr Demokrazy.


60 posted on 12/30/2022 10:26:08 AM PST by Pollard ( >>> The Great Reset is already underway! <<<)
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