Zelensky's new censorship bill is not what democracy is about, writes cwtremo.
Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a bill that would permit the Ukrainian government to censor news sites, control the flow of information to the Ukrainian people, and shut down news sites that aren't"registered as media," according to multiple reports. The law more resembles the totalitarian actions of the Soviet Union rather than a small country"protecting democracy," as many on the Left have claimed.
"It proposes to give arbitrary and disproportionate regulatory powers to the national regulator, the National Council on Broadcasting, which would have authority not only over audiovisual media, but also over print and digital media," the EFJ said. "The coercive regulation envisaged by the bill and in the hands of a regulator totally controlled by the government is worthy of the worst authoritarian regimes. It must be withdrawn. A state that would apply such provisions simply has no place in the European Union," Ricardo Gutierrez, general secretary of the federation, said about the then-proposed law earlier this year.
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