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General News Russia aims to ban swear words on the web

Discussion in 'Current Events, World News, & LGBT News' started by HuskyPup, Jul 27, 2013.

  1. HuskyPup

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    Just when you think it can't get any more crazy or repressive, comes this...

    I was thinking: It's odd to see the parallels between ideas in America proposed by Republicans like Rick Santorum and Michelle Bachmann and their crowd, who favor very similar things: Banning pornography, making homosexuality illegal, and so forth.

    I hereby suggest that all Republicans move to Russia.
     
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    Ooh, let's ship all the annoying kids on Xbox Live down there! WHO'S WITH ME?
     
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    Homestuck should be banned then, sadly. The amount of times the word "Fuck" is used, especially by a certain character probably breaks the amount of times it's been said on Facebook.

    Part of me now wants to take Aldrick's idea and play Another F U song by Reel Big Fish in the middle of Red Square in addition.
     
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    Oh, Karkat. Cool profile pic, by the way. Sollux and Dave are my favourites :icon_bigg

    Edit: Reel Big Fish fucking rock, by the way. Especially Take on Me, Beer, and Sell Out.
     
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    Man... what's going on with Russia....
    Did the ghosts of communists past visit Putin?!
    Seriously, the first think that appalled me was when Russia started to prevent adoptions from the United States. And me being from Russia, and adopted from there, i was shocked, offended and very disappointed. Next they denounce gays, and now they're restricting what people can and can't do on the internet. At least the NSA has the decency to hide themselves....
     
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    Petition to melt down Russian government and use them as bio fuel.
     
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    Unfortunately, this isn't shocking. Once a government starts to walk down an authoritarian path, without proper checks in place, that walk starts to speed up. That authoritarianism isn't going to only be limited to LGBT people, it's going to start targeting other groups as well, and even the general public in some cases.

    The best we can hope for is that they greatly overreach, which causes a backlash among the Russian people who rise up to hold them accountable.
     
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    Haven't they already?

    Man it's sad to see an ex-communist area become so cruel and backwards-thinking.
     
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    On LGBT issues? No. The majority of the Russian public (we're talking 90%+ here), literally hate LGBT people. They would probably favor complete criminalization.

    What I meant by over reaching was that they'd start impacting the general public with ever greater oppressive and authoritarian laws. Sure, the homophobic skinhead prick down the street may be all for killing gay people, but when the black booted thugs start coming for him the story will be different.

    When that happens, and if people get angry and rise up - that gives a more progressive group the chance to seize power. Then they can start repealing those laws - including the ones that target LGBT people.
     
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    This song would also be a good one:

    [YOUTUBE]ngryshHoj_s[/YOUTUBE]
     
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    God knows we could use it xD sign me up!



    But yeah, this is depressing X_X
     
  12. Russia? The country where swearing is so sophisticated it practically has it's own language?

    Winston Churchill was right about them, I suppose.
     
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    Absolute dogs. The Russian Confederation is nothing but an assortey of Orthodox Church and mafia members nowadays, so this isn't really surprising. United Russia are rightist bastards and will collaborate with the nastiest of nasties in order to keep political control in the country.

    Just going to nitpick here.

    Putin is extremely anti-communist and his politics reflect such. This includes anti-gay legislation that wasn't even existent in the soviet union. In fact, it was only during the isolation of the soviet republics and Stalin's rise to power that homosexuality was criminalised - most of the far left movements of the 19th and 20th century strongly promoted LGBT rights, among other things (see revolutionary France's policy on sodomy and homosexuals).
     
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    There is really only one thing to say to this. Fuck.

    And I'd just like to point out that true communism is stateless. Don't go blaming communism for this, even if it weren't the case that putin hates communism.
     
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    My response -

    Fuck you Putin you fucking facist wankerwhore you look like uncle fester crossed with agent 47 from hit man, also you are probably gay to the point where you fucking over fucking compensate with all your "macho wanker" photographs, russia must be full of idiots if a twat like yourself is running the things.



    Thank you

    I wish Lenin would rise from his tomb and kick Putin's ass
     
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    You know what, that's a great idea. Let's give all our Republican politicians a one-way ticket to Russia. We should totally do that.

    As far as banning swear words on the web.....can they even do that? How would they go about regulating this?
     
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    It's even odder if you know both Russian and English. Since late 90's some of the Russian nationalist propaganda had been pretty much US black-helicopter conspiracy theories re-told with US as a main villain imposing The New World Order on hapless Russia with fluorinated toothpaste and whatnot.
     
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    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


    I'm glad I don't live in Russia...