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> West countries have similar laws Recent Russian law: 15 years imprisonment for protesting or even just calling the war a war. Western countries have nothing
by jlokier 5y ago
> West countries have similar laws
Recent Russian law: 15 years imprisonment for protesting or even just calling the war a war.
Western countries have nothing of that scale for such general offences. Neither in law nor in culture.
The nearest things I can think of are holocaust or genocide denial laws, and protest-limiting powers. There are some similarities, but also very significant differences, so I think you are using the fallacy of false equivalence in your argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence
- vbezhenar 5y agoI posted two links in a neighbor thread, I'll repeat those here: https://www.praguemorning.cz/expressing-support-for-russia-or-putin-could-be-prosecuted-in-the-czech-republic/ https://www.praguemorning.cz/expressing-support-for-russia-o... https://spravy.rtvs.sk/2022/02/za-podporu-vojnovej-propagandy-hrozi-az-dozivotie/ https://spravy.rtvs.sk/2022/02/za-podporu-vojnovej-propagand... Those are European countries. I agree that probably state of freedom of speech is worse in Russia. I agree that political diversity is basically zero in Russia and all Putin opponents are either dead, imprisoned or gone from the country. That's a terrible state of things and it must be improved. Hopefully after Putin's rule, he's not eternal after all. And if you think that everyone in Russia is going to jail for calling it war, you're wrong. Putin himself called it war. Plenty of people called it war. This is just fear mongering. And potential reason to put in jail some people if they crossed some line. At least I think so. Just as I hope that links above are fear mongering.