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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: JonPreston

Ron Klain as Wesley Mouch comes to mind.


61 posted on 12/30/2022 10:30:21 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It! lol)
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To: MeganC
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Zelensky signs a controversial law to regulate the news media., MeganC wrote:

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.

You object to those posting accurate, even photographic, information about the dictator that is receiving over $100 billion of our tax dollars, despite extensive proof that the Ukraine is the money laundering hub for the DNC and Biden family crimes therein.

When I posted that gif of Zelensky squirming in high heels and sequins, one of his fan club sneered that it isn't porn and called it 'exotic dancing'. Hah! Well then, alrighty! So much better?!

You people keep trying to tell us what words to use and insist that we look at any other country or leader than Zelensky. If we focus on the topic of the thread, you insist we must be pro-Putin, just because we don't let you tell us what to post about.

This thread is about him and you keep singing songs about Russia Russia Russia! We can objectively look at Zelensky's despicable actions and identify them as wrong without comparison to any other country. It's not that Zelensky is wrong 'compared with Russia', it's that Zelensky is crushing freedom and operating a proxy war and serving the Ukraine up as a hub of corruption. We can talk about that. You can post threads about Russia if you like; you don't have to commandeer every thread critical of Zelensky for your own agenda.


62 posted on 12/30/2022 10:31:47 AM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: proust

>> Whoa he’s literally Abraham Lincoln!

Except better looking!


63 posted on 12/30/2022 10:44:06 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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To: JGPhila

Hitler was a working class hero, too.


64 posted on 12/30/2022 10:49:00 AM PST by RedMonqey
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To: Sacajaweau
and you are clarifying what he is...thanks

😂😂😂

65 posted on 12/30/2022 10:53:41 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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To: ransomnote

Very well said, ransomnote.


66 posted on 12/30/2022 10:54:12 AM PST by Allegra
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To: JonPreston

Oh yay. We’re now financing Hitler, Stalin, and Khrushchev. What great use of my tax dollars. I’m so proud.


67 posted on 12/30/2022 10:54:47 AM PST by CaptainPhilFan ( )
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To: JonPreston

wonder boy strikes again!!


68 posted on 12/30/2022 11:00:38 AM PST by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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To: JonPreston

The Olive Thug strikes again!


69 posted on 12/30/2022 11:01:49 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

The Greasy Green t-shirt Fascist!


70 posted on 12/30/2022 11:02:49 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: Allegra; ransomnote

Yes, bravo!


71 posted on 12/30/2022 11:03:30 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: JonPreston

That’s because (as everyone with experience with RuSSia knows), much of the “media” is not media at all. It is RuSSian propaganda and designed to undermine Ukraine’s nationhood.

I only wish we had a leader who would do the same here.


72 posted on 12/30/2022 11:14:56 AM PST by Vaden (Real conservatives will not allow our wagon to be hitched to fascist Russia)
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To: JonPreston

File this under PEDO FILE-A.

Is the PEDISENT of Ukraine?

He also signed laws to legalize homosexuality.


73 posted on 12/30/2022 11:15:20 AM PST by Jumper ( )
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To: JonPreston

At least he signed a law. Our government just outsources it to the FIB, NSA, CIA, DHS, ATF, and doesn’t tell anyone.


74 posted on 12/30/2022 11:17:28 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Vaden
I only wish we had a leader who would do the same here.

You have one in Demented Joe, or don't you believe the Musk Twitter files?

75 posted on 12/30/2022 11:18:30 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: Organic Panic
Our government just outsources it to the FIB, NSA, CIA, DHS, ATF, and doesn’t tell anyone

Love it!

76 posted on 12/30/2022 11:19:30 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: G Larry

They constantly threaten Fox News.


77 posted on 12/30/2022 11:20:33 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: JonPreston

Zelensky closed down the opposition media soon after the war broke out. What is he closing now???


78 posted on 12/30/2022 11:21:58 AM PST by elpadre (W )
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To: dfwgator

Yep, that’s when we’ll know its time....


79 posted on 12/30/2022 11:29:17 AM PST by G Larry ( "woke" means 'stupid enough to fall for the promotion of every human weakness into a virtue')
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To: MeganC

“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.”

With all due respect, you need to lighten up a bit. The intent of the posted “imagery” is quite obviously facetious and mocking in nature.


80 posted on 12/30/2022 11:32:11 AM PST by traderrob6
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