Russia Just Made A Ton Of Memes Illegal

[Snail2]

Well this seems like an unusual law so I looked for another source
Can't really trust in the Washington post with an American view that may be twisting the topic.

Upon further analysis though it seems to be true looks like they want to defend personal privacy rights in order to prevent libel, sort of like the case where this autistic girls image is being used to represent an anti vaccination campaign.
http://metronews.ca/news/calgary/1335166/calgary-mother-fights-to-remove-facebook-hate-speech-page-that-stole-photo-of-daughter-with-down-syndrome/

A person who believes that their image is being used inappropriately can report the offenders to Roskomnadzor or sue them. "Web sites are essentially given the choice of blocking the offending content in Russia, or seeing their whole sites get blocked across the country,” the Post writes.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/russias-internet-censor-reminds-citizens-that-some-memes-are-illegal/

That makes more sense then the original article. Certainly there are always some danger of abusing such laws.

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[SirChiko]

Definitely "give that man a cookie", there are plenty of funny memes about putin, i really think this will not change anything in the way people use memes, the internet is big...

You are maybr going to be dissappointed but this is anti russia bullshit propaganda and it's actually no law.

[hofor]

Good and to-the-point replies, Balthazar. It's quite telling that the West's favourite game of Russia-bashing is intensifying now...

I take it you support Russia in any conflict with the West, then?

[jaysabi]

Definitely "give that man a cookie", there are plenty of funny memes about putin, i really think this will not change anything in the way people use memes, the internet is big...

You are maybr going to be dissappointed but this is anti russia bullshit propaganda and it's actually no law.

Russian censors have determined that one of the most popular forms of Internet meme is illegal. According to Roskomnadzor, the Kremlin’s media watchdog, 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.”

The new policy comes on the heels of a court decision in Moscow, where a judge ruled that a particular photo meme violates the privacy of Russian singer Valeri Syutkin. The court’s decision targets an article on Lurkmore, a popular Wikipedia-style Russian website that focuses on Internet subcultures and memes.

The court ordered Lurkmore remove controversial meme "BBPE" with Syutkin

Moscow, on 7 April. According to the decision of the Meshchansky Court of Moscow common network meme "BBPE" with photographs of the Russian singer Valery Syutkina obscene and signature must be removed from the pages of the online encyclopedia "Lurkomore» (Lurkmore). Thus the Court granted the petition Roskomnadzora, who represented the singer in court.

Over the next 30 days Lurkmore must remove meme with a portrait or Syutkin Roscomnadzor make resource page in a single register of banned information (which it does, however, regularly, on different occasions).

Photo by Valery Syutkina with an appropriate inscription for several years used the Internet meme BBPE, "Beat a woman by ... (person)", probably due to the fact that intelligent and cheerful person Syutkina better than others opposed to the absurd slogan that allows you to instantly achieve a comic effect.

Earlier in December Meshchansky Court in Moscow refused Roskomnadzor in considering a claim for blacklisted page online resource "Lurkomore» (Lurkmore) to offend Valery Syutkina meme known in abbreviated form as "BBPE", as applied to him "wrong applicant ".

According to the creator of "Lurkomorya" scandalous picture two years older than the site itself. Directly involved in the developments took my mother a singer: she was found that the image of his face "used in bad faith."

Site Lurkmore positions itself as an online encyclopedia of contemporary culture, telling, including the history of the origins of the various memes. The Internet provides the following description of the resource: "Lurkomore» (Lurkmore) - informal, unformatted, frivolous and humorous online encyclopedia, positioning itself as the "Encyclopedia of modern culture, folklore and subcultures, as well as everything else."

No law you were saying?

[Sithara007]

This country is becoming another USSR after Puttin‘s back, And they will still call Russia a free and democratic country.

In my opinion, Putin owns Russia and he thinks he can do whatever he wants to do with it and it's people.

[bryant.coleman]

This country is becoming another USSR after Puttin‘s back, And they will still call Russia a free and democratic country.

In my opinion, Putin owns Russia and he thinks he can do whatever he wants to do with it and it's people.

Just like Obama owns the US, and Merkel owns Germany (and probably Greece), Putin owns Russia. But the difference here is that Putin enjoys more than 80% support from his people, while for both Obama and Merkel, it is lower than 30%.

[Balthazar]

No law you were saying?

Get your priorities straight and stop being a fool please. There is no such law which would allow RKN to perform such activity. But individuals can sue an author of meme for violation of their rights.

Just like in the USA, by the way...

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/20140107-WSJ-coinye.pdf
http://radio.com/2014/07/28/kanye-west-coinye-lawsuit-win-cryptocurrency-bitcoin/

No law you were saying?

Lol, how quickly did you forget about Coinye lawsuit.  Seems like Orwellian doublethink to me. 

[hofor]

This country is becoming another USSR after Puttin?s back, And they will still call Russia a free and democratic country.

In my opinion, Putin owns Russia and he thinks he can do whatever he wants to do with it and it's people.

Just like Obama owns the US, and Merkel owns Germany (and probably Greece), Putin owns Russia. But the difference here is that Putin enjoys more than 80% support from his people, while for both Obama and Merkel, it is lower than 30%.

Obama and Merkel don't own their countries like Putin owns Russia. Putin is a near-dictator, and the others aren't.

80% support for Putin? Well. I guess it's easy to get support when you don't have a problem killing your opponents or those who criticize you.

[bryant.coleman]

Obama and Merkel don't own their countries like Putin owns Russia. Putin is a near-dictator, and the others aren't.

People might differ. For me, Obama is more of a dictator than Putin.

80% support for Putin? Well. I guess it's easy to get support when you don't have a problem killing your opponents or those who criticize you.

People will be having their own priorities. Ordinary Russians are thankful to Putin, for significantly improving their living conditions over the years. Also, most of the opposition figures in Russia are having an image problem. And who is killing their political opponents? Are you talking about the future-POTUS Hillary Clinton, who has murdered more than two dozen of her political opponents? Remember Vince Foster?

[jaysabi]

No law you were saying?

Get your priorities straight and stop being a fool please. There is no such law which would allow RKN to perform such activity. But individuals can sue an author of meme for violation of their rights.

Just like in the USA, by the way...

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/20140107-WSJ-coinye.pdf
http://radio.com/2014/07/28/kanye-west-coinye-lawsuit-win-cryptocurrency-bitcoin/

No law you were saying?

Lol, how quickly did you forget about Coinye lawsuit.  Seems like Orwellian doublethink to me.  

All right, calm down mate. Your over-defensiveness speaks louder than your words. Does Russia not have some analogous system of common law based on court cases? This rule/law/whatever you want to call it came down from your censorship agency after a court case made it possible to enforce. That's how common law works in the western world, that's how the judicial branch creates case law. You know what the difference between the "Coinye" lawsuit and the Lurkmore lawsuit is? After the decision, no censorship agency in the US declared all memes illegal, or all cryptocurrencies illegal, or all anything illegal.