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Hey all you Trump supporters do you support Putin outlying freedom of the press?

Trump supporters are all about first Amendment rights how do you feel about Putin taking these rights away from Russians?

Putin passes bills outlawing criticism of him by his media & citizens

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a series of bills that would criminalize the spreading of "fake news" or "blatant disrespect" for the state, but which critics say is intended to chill free speech critical of the government.

Any outlet convicted of disseminating “unreliable socially significant information” could face fines of up to 1.5 million rubles under the new legislation, according to reports.

The laws also penalize distributing information that “exhibits blatant disrespect for the society, government, official government symbols, constitution or governmental bodies of Russia,” and will allow prosecutors to refer any complaints about online media to the state communications agency. Penalties could include fines and up to 15 days in jail.

Free speech advocates have warned the laws could repress political speech, especially as the Kremlin moves to expand their control over the internet and require all web traffic in the country to go through domestic servers.

“Russia has not historically had major constraints on Internet freedom. The Internet has thus been one realm in which full diversity of opinion and free expression, even on the most sensitive political topics, were generally permitted,” Matthew Rojansky, director of the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute, told The Washington Post. “The prosecutor general now has essentially unconstrained authority to determine that any speech is unacceptable under the new law.”

Press advocates say that laws against "fake news" are used by governments to crack down on dissent.

Last year, Egypt passed its own law penalizing so-called fake news and declaring any social media account or blog with more than 5,000 followers to be a media outlet. Belarus has changed its laws to allow the state to prosecute anyone believed to have spread misinformation online.

President Trump often labels coverage from The New York Times, The Washington Post and CNN among other outlets, as "fake news" over what he says is unfair or biased reporting.

OneHungLo

I guess this is ok? You guys LOVE censorship..this is right up your alley.

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just a punk

Not correct as usually, but yes. from now it's forbidden to insult (no tho criticize) the government. This is law doesn't change anything in Russia, because it was officially forbidden before, so if I call Putin a motherfucker, I can be fined for that.

The last time when police has tried apply the anti-insulting criminal punishment was many years ago, when some guy has called Putin a fag in mediaх. When he was sent to a police station, he said that he didn't even try to insult Putin. By "fag" he meant that Putin is a homosexual, according to his own humble opinion. Since there is no law against opinions, the case was closed. But it had a huge Streisand effect... The search engines were generating "fag"-related SERP's for a "putin" query )

The second law which was also signed by Putin today is much worse. It's a so-called law about "fake news". In short, everybody who spreads "fake news" in the Internet can be fined for up to 300,000 rubles (about $4,500 USD). So it's something like this craziness: https://gfy.com/fucking-around-and-p...ce-online.html - we are in the same boat now.

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Bladewire

Scumbag traitors

Bladewire

So Russians can go online pretending to be Americans trashing America, but it's illegal for them to trash their own country.

"The legislation establishes punishments for spreading information that “exhibits blatant disrespect for the society, government, official government symbols, constitution or governmental bodies of Russia.”"

Sarn

Now CyberSEO can't insult me as United Russia party member by the law, but I can insult him.

pimpmaster9000

democracy and free press are not an option...the USA will just buy both and do a "venezuela"....it is amusing how invaders expect people to play their rigged game ...the USA exists for 1 reason only: to sniff other peoples shit...americans can not sleep until they interfere with somebodys life...americas #1 fear is loosing the ability to tell others how to live...

so basically I support anything that pisses the USA off...

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just a punk

There is nothing about United Russia cock suckers in that law because it's about the government, so иди нахуй и не забудь подмыть область на 3 цуня ниже пупка - вдруг САМ залобзает

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optics

I'm not a fan of Putin, but don't believe anything you read about him, or Russia, in Western media.

Russians are not "other". Those who control Western media just want you to believe that they are.

Busty2

Just wait until mushroom cock hears about this, he will start tweeting about what a great idea this is and we, "America" should have the same laws. 3-2-1

Rochard

Well, it seems your wish has been granted.

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Sarn

CyberSEO criminal now

PR_Glen

sure you are buddy. and if they found out that you were posting here on this board? how would they view you?

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Sarn

who they?

Busty2

FSB Lubyanka Square

just a punk

They:

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Bladewire

The "fake news" defense. That's a classic

Sarn

we will find a compromise ))

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Grapesoda

i agree, most stories i see mark and you jabbering about are always 'if true, if he did, suppose they find, if trump did' etc. and not just one or two.. like about three fucking hundred, so there is a discernible pattern... okay? even rockhard is all over that shit with you guys... it's really weird.

every TV comedy writer, every late night talk show host, every minority spokesperson, 99% of all actors and musicians are against trump. because its cool and fun, never mind that it's a negative quality for our country, I mean fuck that. it's all about you, right?

fairly obvious to anyone. the dems have now figured out they only need the 3 or 4 large population centers to win the next election, strip cites I think they are called. so they are targeting the electoral collage. they will say (you will say) that the electoral collage targets blacks and gays and is an unfair advantage to straight religious white people.

they don't want the middle class americans voting. that's fairly obvious as well. it's like watching retards plan something and yet.. . you guys are all over it??? you guys should possibly stop watching TV or something