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Vladimir Putin Signs Sweeping Internet-Censorship Bills (arstechnica.com)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed two censorship bills into law Monday. One bans "fake news" while the other makes it illegal to insult public officials. Ars Technica reports on the details: Under one bill, individuals can face fines and jail time if they publish material online that shows a "clear disrespect for society, the state, the official state symbols of the Russian Federation, the Constitution of the Russian Federation, and bodies exercising state power." Insults against Putin himself can be punished under the law, The Moscow Times reports. Punishments can be as high as 300,000 rubles ($4,700) and 15 days in jail.
A second bill subjects sites publishing "unreliable socially significant information" to fines as high as 1.5 million rubles ($23,000). [T]he Russian government has "essentially unconstrained authority to determine that any speech is unacceptable. One consequence may be to make it nearly impossible for individuals or groups to call for public protest activity against any action taken by the state," [analyst Matthew Rojansky told the Post]
A second bill subjects sites publishing "unreliable socially significant information" to fines as high as 1.5 million rubles ($23,000). [T]he Russian government has "essentially unconstrained authority to determine that any speech is unacceptable. One consequence may be to make it nearly impossible for individuals or groups to call for public protest activity against any action taken by the state," [analyst Matthew Rojansky told the Post]
They're not new ideas; they're a collection of incoherent rambling talking points which have nothing to do with the subject. I stopped reading because I've seen it all before; you, like all of your ilk, have confused obfuscation for complexity. The pedophiles over at NAMBLA love taking the same approach: "But how do we define the difference between an adult and a minor? We all have some basic common sense definitions, but none of them work as solid definitions".
When someone asks you if "Kailyn" Jenner is a man or a woman, and you start waxing philosophical about how we don't really know what those words mean, it's clear that you're not actually engaging in any complex thinking; you're engaging in rote repetition intended to confuse the issue.
You are also - rather handily - demonstrating that the original guy was right.