Brad Dress – The Hill, Yahoo News Jan 2, 2023
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed into law a controversial statute expanding the government’s power to regulate media groups and journalists in the country.
Zelensky signed the legislation on Thursday over the objections of media unions and press freedom organizations that warned it will have a chilling effect on free speech.
Under the new law, the National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council, whose members are appointed by the president’s administration and by members of parliament, will have broader authority over Ukrainian media organizations and journalists.
The regulatory agency can effectively shut down news sites that aren’t registered, according to The Kyiv Independent.
In a statement last month, the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine said the bill posed a “threat” to press freedom in the country.
“Such powers are clearly excessive,” the organization wrote. “No one has yet managed to tame freedom of speech in Ukraine. It won’t work this time either.”
Zelensky’s administration has been accused of suppressing press freedom. He first ordered the drafting of a new law to boost media regulation in 2019, the year he entered office.
The law was passed along with several other new statutes lawmakers say are required in order to become eligible for European Union membership, which Ukraine applied for last year.
The bill for the legislation, which the Ukrainian parliament passed on Dec. 13, was watered down after mounting criticism.
Previous draft versions handed the National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council a greater ability to impose fines on media groups, revoke licenses from printed media and block online outlets from publishing restricted information.
When the draft versions were released, several international media organizations voiced opposition to the law, including the Committee to Protect Journalists and the European Federation of Journalists.
Ricardo Gutiérrez, general secretary of the European Federation of Journalists, told The New York Times the law still contradicted European press freedom standards.
“Ukraine will demonstrate its European commitment by promoting a free and independent media, not by establishing state control of information,” Gutiérrez said.
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Mr Z just don’t want anybody seeing his old Dancing Boy video.
When I burned a copy I made sure everybody — and I mean EVERYBODY — got a chance to see what this slick phony is. More have seen it since and everyone needs to know he’s the biggest thief in the world now.
Hey! All the applause he got in Washington from the lying, thieving pigs there tells you all you need to know about that — RIGHT?
Sounds like a bolshevik government to me. No wonder the Americans support it.
Funny how TTS never runs a story about the anti-free speech laws in Bolshevik Russia where anyone caught questioning the holocaust fable is jailed for 5 years.
Exactly, brian boru!
And the American Congress still insists that this wonderful and courageous piece of filth deserves standing ovations by the dozen. US instigated and paid for the Maidan incident and yet we never hear that bit of inconvenient truth, do we? Make no mistake about matters, we know only too well who is behind this. Hint. Ask John Kaminski, he’s been totally correct for decades about our blatant tormentors. Time for Kristallnacht 2.
surely he is dictator as any jew power
in JEW WORLD ORDER will be dictatorial .
the Sanhedrin is dictatorial, the Chabad rabbis
are like any orthodox dictatorial . jewish
demonocide/demonocraty was only bait for
goyim as start for the end !
Hopefully:
…. next time Zelensky plays a piano with his dick…
,,,, someone will slam the lid on it !
Oy….full spectrum circumcision right up to the groin !