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Russia just made a ton of Internet memes illegal

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Memes prohibition is rather pathetic, but the mentioned "law that forced all bloggers with more than 3,000 daily readers to register with the Roskomnadzor, basically outlawing anonymous blogs" is a nightmare.

I'm sure the Russian internet community will respond to this with the tactful respect and dignity it deserves.

Considering the amount of kremlinbots and government apologists that populate Russian internet community, I doubt it. This will be largely be applauded, just like the previous attempts at censorship were.

Russia, and most of the western world for that matter, including England et al, don't have the same free speech protections for all kinds of references to others the way the US has. Anti-defamation law is a thing in other countries -- and lest people start to pity them, they should know that they like having their own customs and laws, thank you very much.

Besides, most of them don't have other BS for balance, like say the death penalty or crazed tea-party/bible-yielding/Obama-is-the-devil populations...

The country that assassinates leading politicians doesn't have "other BS"?

When a country isn't democracy, its hard to say that the people like the laws.

You mean like JFK and Bob Kennedy, prominent black leaders like MLK and Malcom X, and who knows how many more either in assasinations or in more sophisticated career killing schemes?

We just have to let Russia find her own way.

No we need to enforce gay rights on them.

Exactly. This needs to be emphasized.

Whether it's Russia and its politicians and its speech laws, or it's Iraq or Libya or Syria or whatever, those people need to figure it out for themselves. Maybe they can use the USA for inspiration. Maybe they can use the USA as examples of what not to do.

We can't wish our values and our culture on them. It needs to come from within.

Of course, this shouldn't apply to external affairs. It shouldn't be OK for Putin to invade Ukraine or threaten the Baltics. That band isn't getting back together.

Russia was finding her own way after the first world war and it didn't work out so well for most of Eastern Europe.

when things like this happen now I just think "What will John Oliver say about this?"

Idiots

We cant completely trust these sources, after all its "Washington" post.

You don't happen to work for the Internet Research centre, do you?

did the washigton post write any topics on this https://www.google.com/search?q=fuck+the+eu&oq=fuck+the+eu&a.... And no media ever covers about the brutality in saudi arabia may be because that authoritarian regime is a allie of USA. No one gave a shit about 2000 people who dead in affrica recentely. But the 2000 that died in 911 is given a 1000x more attention than affricans. THIS is the media, its absolutely unfair.

A quick search shows that they did in fact write about the "fuck the eu" story and the Boko Haram massacre, and they have written a whole raft of articles about human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia.

You can down vote me or do anything. Nothing is going to change the truth, and you know it !

Actually he is right (at least about this publication). It's just "rumors", based on one "funny" post in social network from one of russian state organizations. There is no law under that post and this organization can't "make illegal" anything - they aren't allowed to write laws but only execute them. Look at the other posts and you will see (even without any translations) that it's the least adequate organization in Russia: https://vk.com/rkn?w=wall-76229642_36939 - it's one of their official posts. It's State Organization, allowed to ban sites in russian segment of internet. Make your conclusions.

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