Russia Proposes Banning Foul Language On the Internet

eldavojohn writes "In a country where it's illegal to insult a government official, State Duma Deputy Yelena Mizulina has proposed an amendment to ban swearing on social networks, bulletin boards and all websites. The website would be blocked if the offending material had not been removed within 24 hours. The name of the law this would be added to? "On the protection of children from information harmful to their health and development." Mizulina's title in regards to this legislation? Chairwoman of the Committee on Family, Women and Children (No joke!). Of course, Yelena Mizulina is no stranger to unwarranted censorship as she was behind the law banning gay propaganda to minors and invoked laws to try to silence critics on twitter. The article also notes, 'United Russia deputy Vitaly Milonov put forward a similar initiative on 25 July. He proposed to tighten control over social networks and allow people to dating sites through their passports.'"

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Re:Obligartory

[superwiz]

Not Soviet America. Socialist America.

No, it's definitely Soviet America. The modern leftist movements are ronin of the Soviet Union. They had their roots in Soviet world-wide (now widely-exposed) propaganda. But their sponsors are long gone. What you are seeing now is the ideas born pre-20th century which gave roots to the over-reaction which was the Communist movement. These ideas have grown into a nonsensical monstrosity fertilized by the pseudo psychology (debunked by actual neuroscience) of the Frankfurt school. And now they transformed into just idiotic ramblings of what is today's left. The roots of the "philosophy" are gone -- debunked both in theory and in practice. But, as all ronin, they exercise the accumulated power to continue to simply fight for their own survival without any definable goal. The hate for Soviet Russia has become nothing but xenophobia at this point. It's hate for Russia as a country -- not as an ideology. Because America has embraced and mainstreamed the ideology of the Soviet Union while Russia has vehemently rejected it.