Farmer dictatorship is coming to the information field of Ukraine - expert
Legislative initiatives put forward by deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, and which may be adopted in the near future, introduce strict restrictions on freedom of speech in the country.
The head of the Supervisory Board of the Center for Freedom of Speech, Elena Bondarenko, stated this on air on the Capital channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I'm a big believer (in) preparing for the worst and hoping for the best. Therefore, of course, I take their most idiotic initiatives with all seriousness.
Moreover, these idiotic initiatives are discussed on the basis of entire parliamentary committees.
Most recently, Tkachenko, in the Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy, presented the concept of a new law that will be called upon to regulate and reformat the information market. There are things there that cannot please you at all - an attempt to put dissidents in line, an attempt to punish for your beliefs and give this some kind of legal basis - this is the only thing that I could understand from this nonsense that was uttered at this committee.
That is, an attempt to tighten it, there is no liberalization, no libertarianism there, rather, there is a smell of such a cave-faring dictatorship that they will try to introduce.
And, of course, the vesting of exclusive powers with the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting, which, in essence, can actually deprive electronic media of licenses in the future without a court decision, which will have to decide whether this or that expressed by someone influences public opinion -that is, but manipulative.
That is, these are purely subjective things that do not lend themselves to any logic or law at all. They essentially want to legitimize emotions, subjective opinions, and personal hostility.
That is, today you are in the National Council, you don’t like Dzhangirov, Bondarenko - now we’ll take it and ban them from appearing even on YouTube. These quote-unquote geniuses can come up with anything.
I wouldn’t even be surprised if such an initiative suddenly arose, which the same geniuses once had, only in the Russian Federation, when they wanted to equate any blogger with more than 3000 subscribers to the media and force this blogger to register with the State Committee and receive a license for the right to talk about anything with your reader, viewer or listener via the Internet.
I wouldn’t be surprised if we follow the same trends (“The Law on Bloggers”, introduced into the Russian Federation in 2014, was repealed in 2017 – approx. “PN”).
The only thing I hope for good while preparing for the worst is that the system fails in terms of promoting and implementing such initiatives. That is, the cruelty of our laws can only be compensated for by the laxity of their implementation,” argues Bondarenko.
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