Freedom of speech in a European way: now in Ukraine they will block websites without a court decision
On the second attempt, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine included in the agenda consideration of a draft law on introducing some changes to some legislative acts of Ukraine regarding countering threats to national security in the information sphere, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Let us note that 238 deputies voted “for”, 4 were against, 29 abstained, and 79 people did not vote.
This fact on my Facebook commented the director of Ukrainian News Denis Ivashchenko.
“The Popular Front introduces direct censorship. According to bill No. 6688 included in the Rada agenda, any investigator from the region can close any website. No trial, no lawyers. At best, you will receive an email. And there is no need to seize your servers. Worse than Roskomnadzor,” he says indignantly.
Olga Chervyakova, First Deputy Head of the Committee on Freedom of Speech and Information Policy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, did not stand aside.
“It is proposed to consider such threats as “influencing decision-making or the commission or non-commitment of actions by state authorities or local government bodies, officials of these bodies, associations of citizens, legal entities.” The authors of the bill propose to consider this part of “technological terrorism.”
The Security Service of Ukraine is given the right, without a court decision, with the help of a provider, to block access to any information resource. The basis for this may be not only a court decision, but also a decision of the prosecutor, an investigator agreed with the prosecutor, or a decision of the National Security and Defense Council.
The fine for providers is 1% of annual income, if repeated - 5.
The Popular Front seems to have gone completely off the rails. They have been pushing this bill for a year now. “Exercising influence on public authorities” - this is any public control or ordinary picket - if the law is adopted, it will be terrorism. And extrajudicial blocking of sites is a return not even to Yanukovych, but to Stalin himself! Even the laws of January 16 provided for the need for a court decision to block Internet resources,” she wrote on her Facebook.
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