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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
I didn't get it again. What exactly those laws forbid? What is the punishment for avoiding them? Do those laws somehow making something illegal which is legal somewhere else?
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it makes it illegal to operate a sufficiently popular blog without registering with the government first... I haven't heard of any civilized country where you have to register your blog with the government? have you?
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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
It's just another bullshit which says: if you have more than some thousands of visitors on your blog per a month, you have to register your site as a news media. The questions are: how would you know how many visitors I have? What will you do if I tell you "fuck off"? What will you do to me? Send me to a jail? No, because it's not a crime. Fine me? No again, because it's not a crime. Now I'll tell you what does it mean. When you register your blog as a news media (it's a free procedure), you will get ALL the possibilities which were available to the official news media only. E.f. you will be able to visit the places "for media only". You will be able to start instigation procedures. You'll be protected by the law as a journalist etc... For example, if someone will break your camera or microphone, it's just a property damage. If someone do it when you are registered as a news media, the same damage will be considered as an obstruction of journalists, which is a serious crime that leads to a jail time.
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it may perhaps give you some rights, but it also makes you responsible for what you publish... you can no longer publish some wild conspiracy theories without proof, can't publish anything anti-russian, etc...
while the whole world recognizes that freedom of speech is important, you guys create new laws that start to restrict it, even if in a very meaningless sense like this new law...