Russia outlaws memes

rof · Apr 10, 2015

https://globalvoicesonline.org/2015/04/10/russia-the-kremlin-declares-war-on-memes/

rof · Apr 10, 2015

exploitables:

DeathHamster · Apr 10, 2015

it’s now against the law to use celebrities’ photographs in a meme, “when the image has nothing to do with the celebrity’s personality.”

you asked · May 1, 2015

4chan had a field day with this, btw. It was fairly amusing.

xxSocialismxx · May 17, 2015

you asked said: ↑

4chan had a field day with this, btw. It was fairly amusing.

Lel, that shit was great...

And btw, on the link OP, why the hell is there a dickbutt?

Anonymous Ocean · May 17, 2015

Anonymous · May 17, 2015

Anonymous · Jun 21, 2015

Putin Dreams...

JohnnyRUClear · Jun 22, 2015

Declaring war on memes. Because beehive-raping has proven so successful.

Maybe the Kremlin just figured everyone could use a good laugh...? RHBT?

Anonymous · Jun 23, 2015

1044 · Jun 23, 2015

If I knew his email addy I'd send him that!

Anonymous · Jun 23, 2015

1044 said: ↑

If I knew his email addy I'd send him that!

vputin@kremlin.ru

239 · Jun 23, 2015

Doxing Putin.

Someone will get an early morning knock on the door.

DeathHamster · Aug 1, 2015

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...hes-probe-against-same-sex-kiss-family-emoji/

Report: Russian agency launches probe against same-sex kiss, family emoji

Asks pro-government youth activism group to snitch on fellow Facebook users.

by Sam Machkovech - Jul 31, 2015 4:57pm EDT

After giving the world's gay community quite possibly its most iconic studly-man image in decades, the Russian government has since gone on a legislative and regulatory tear against all things gay. This week, the controversial "gay propaganda" bill that President Vladimir Putin signed into law in 2013 was linked to an apparent effort by a Russian agency to discover pro-gay communications on social networks, especially those that include emoji and emoticons with same-sex kisses and family images with two dads or two moms.

The Russian-newspaper story was reported in the United States by Vocativ on Wednesday. It explained that the country's Roskomnadzor media-watchdog agency reached out to a pro-government youth activism group, known as Young Guard of United Russia, and asked its members to essentially snitch on anybody whose social media posts broke the country's Article 6.13.1 law, which forbids, among other things, "propaganda of homosexuality among minors."

According to the original Russian report, the uncovered letter sent to this activism group by Roskomnadzor Deputy Head Konstantin Vladimirovich Marchenko contained specific guidances about emoji on Facebook, along with his concerns that "most" social media users are minors—even though a cursory glance at not-so-concrete surveys reveals that most Russian social media users are not minors and are therefore not under the purview of the law in question. We, like Vocativ, also wonder whether Marchenko's request made any mention of the eggplant emoji in this regard.

A representative from the Young Guard of United Russia responded in the report by saying the group hadn't received such a request but would fulfill it upon receipt. That representative also took the opportunity to mention that a roughly $800 fine had been levied against the administrator of a Russian pro-LGBT online community known as Children 404; Roskomnadzor's Facebook page had publicly blasted Children 404 as recently as November.

We have reached out to Facebook requesting comment on the report and will update this story if we get a response. In the meantime, here, enjoy Putin On A Ritz:

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