Kiev police in the Donbass boasted that they turned off the broadcast of Russian channels from 40 thousand people
This year, in the territory of the former Donetsk region controlled by Ukrainian armed forces, police stopped rebroadcasting banned television channels to more than 40 thousand users.
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It is reported press service of the Kiev-controlled department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Donetsk region.
In addition, during the monitoring of web resources supporting the DPR, almost 800 people were identified who were involved in helping the militias.
It is noted that the fight against “Putin propaganda” in law enforcement agencies is dealt with by a separate police unit - the Department for Combating Cybercrime (UCC).
“During the monitoring of social networks, information has so far been collected regarding 768 members of illegal armed groups, and their connections have been established. The primary task of UBC employees is to block the channels of distorted information that terrorists use to manipulate people’s minds and incite war,” the message emphasizes.
Thus, during 2015, Ukrainian special services stopped the activities of 7 business entities.
“For a fee, the attackers, using telecommunications equipment, bypassing the copyright holders, rebroadcast to subscribers more than 500 paid and prohibited television channels, including 14 Russian,” the Ministry of Internal Affairs noted.
Providers operated in Mariupol, Krasnoarmeysk, Kramatorsk, Slavyansk, distributing broadcasts to surrounding settlements.
Let us remind you that strict censorship and restrictions on freedom of speech and the dissemination of information have been in effect on the territory of Ukraine for a year and a half. Rebroadcasting of a number of Russian TV channels is prohibited. Also in early June, it was reported that Goskino had banned the screening of 162 Russian films and television series. All these films were filmed in the Russian Federation after January 1, 2014. Later, 5 more Russian-produced TV series were banned.
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