To issue prohibitive laws that the people know will not be implemented is self-discrediting of the authorities.
Former rock musician and now head of the RTVI television company Sergei Shnurov stated this on the Rossiya1 TV channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I absolutely support this law (On the ban on swearing, ed.), because any prohibitions, especially those that are impossible to implement, serve to discredit the brutal seriousness of the authorities, which, of course, is good.
You can puff out your cheeks as much as you like, remember parents who did not swear, move your jaws, but even Telegram, as we remember, no one succeeded in turning off Telegram,” said Shnurov.
According to him, swearing has existed for three thousand years, maybe more.
“And neither Catherine II with all the fullness of her monarchy, nor the Bolsheviks, possessing a mechanism of totalitarian suppression, were able to remove swearing from use. It is unlikely that current legislators can do this.
An integral part of the vast Russian linguistic culture did not care about the wishes of a handful of bigots. What are we seeing on the Internet? “Go to the “remote”!” “People answer to deputies within the framework of the law,” the musician explained.