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Russia seeks to fine web users searching for content deemed 'extremist' (www.rfi.fr)

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Moscow (AFP) – Russian lawmakers advanced a bill on Tuesday that would fine internet users who search online for web pages, books, artworks or music albums that authorities have deemed "extremist" -- a move critics have called a dangerous attack on freedom.

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[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

some examples of thoughts i'd anticipate russia labeling as extremist:

trans people are real and exist in every community
same sex couples don't want to overthrow the state, inherently, they just want to exist and any at large desire to overthrow the state is a result of the state not allowing them to exist
Ukrainians have their own cultural identity and language, and it's fine for them to exist as their own independent entity
Siberians have their own cultural identity and language, and it's fine if they want to protect and preserve that
reeducation camps to russify and then adopt out children is a tactic employed exclusively by genociders and is wrong to do

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 5 points 2 days ago

Anything related to LGBT+ is already "extremist" in their laws, so yeah