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Tag: censorship

  • Censorship is boring

    Here quote from Civil.ge newsletter:

    Nodar Meladze, head of the news service at another opposition-leaning channel, TV Pirveli, said the Communications Commission (ComCom), Georgia’s state media regulator, “is attempting” to “prohibit” the channel from using the terms “prisoners of conscience,” “oligarch,” and “political prisoners” in news broadcasts. The case appears to be one of those in which the regulator targets opposition-leaning TV channels under the 2025 laws that granted the agency more powers to control the contents of the broadcasters.

    This is how censorship looks like it is pure form. “Georgian Dream” via control over state bodies like “ComCom”, local communications regulator, attempts to forbid words like “oligarch”. Meanwhile:

    1. oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili become billionaire in Russian Federation in 1990s.
    2. He is informal ruler of Georgia country who do not hold any state positions but have full control over parliament, government and courts.
    3. He performs this control being boss of pro-Kremlin1 terrorists gang2 masquerading as a political party “Georgian Dream”.
    4. This gang captured power via disinformation campaign in 2012.
    5. Spreading this information is not so safe in Georgia country as it was 5 or 6 years ago.

    But I do this anyway, because formally this is my duty as citizen of Georgia country. Article 78 of Georgian constitution demands from me to do anything possible to reach goal of European integration of Georgia country, and it means exactly EU and NATO integration. This goal matches my personal political preferences as well.

    1. The decisions “Georgian Dream” makes for a while are beneficial for Kremlin ↩︎
    2. Usage of military-grade chemicals like camite against peaceful protestors resembles act of terrorism done for sole purpose to impose atmosphere of fear and suppress protests. This is example of the state terrorism in my opinion. ↩︎
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  • Department of politeness

    Department of politeness

    Creepy news are coming from Georgia country these days.

    Georgia to Establish Interior Ministry Unit to ‘Systematically Monitor’ ‘Hate Speech’ in Public Spaces

    Do they plan to use political prisoners labor in some sort of gulag?

    Do country really need lot of cheap, unmotivated, and non-qualified labor of e. g. 100 000 of political prisoners done in inhumane conditions?

    If they fear that these people who swear on authorities would vote on elections against GD, I may surprise them. People are much more complicated entities, so depending on how all that will be defined, plenty of qoci1 may end up under supervision of such “department of politeness”.

    or they plan to send them to russian army to help putin to take the Malaya Tokmatchka?

    Or GD want use this to create a Legalese Curtain whose purpose is to prevent citizens from leaving country? And what they expect? That these people, instead of migration away, would start to “produce new Georgians” en masse like rabbits?

    I am not surprised that GD who experience the syndrome of hyper-legitimacy2 just doing so to convince themselves they are legitimate.

    And in some way, GD leader Bidzina Ivanishvili just express the fear of losing power out of the blue. Without any vision, without any goal or plan to do, just pure fear of losing power. Repressions for sake of repressions and censorship for sake of censorship.

    In this regard I wonder what will be next? Outlaw of abortions? Total censorship of internet “a-la Kremlin” via “white lists”? Mass restriction of election and voting rights for literally “farting in public spaces”?

    Time will tell.

    1. Qoci is an acronym from ქართული ოწნება – qartuli ocneba – name of the ruling party in Georgia ↩︎
    2. Here I use a joking way to refer the problems of getting official recognition by GD-dominated disputed parliament and GD monopolistic government by EU and other democratic countries after results of parliamentary elections 2024 where GD got a lot of seats and main opposition parties still boycott this parliament ↩︎
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  • Reblog of 🦜 Civil Georgia:

    Reblog of 🦜 Civil Georgia:

    Reblog via 🦜 Civil Georgia

    GD Adopts Package Restricting Grants, Political Activity, Lobbying, Government Non-Recognition

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    The Georgian Dream-led disputed parliament has adopted in the final hearing a restrictive package that imposes additional curbs on receiving foreign funding, criminalizes “external lobbying,” restricts political activities, imposes limits on businesses,…

    The amendments to grants law resemble Soviet restrictions for any communication with foreigners (aka запрет на общение с иностранцами).

    The amendments restricting any political activity for business entities are so broad that even employee of any company would dare to say some opposition opinion online, it would be possible to fine the company, even GD denies that.

    The amendments declaring extremism forbids spreading any opinion like that: the current GD gang regime done the state capture in 2012 via Kremlin-spread disinformation, and therefore their rule is not legitimate. The extremism clause is so vague that even “activity aimed at creation of perception of Georgia authorities as illegitimate” and all that vague stuff, any discussion about politics will become soon illegal in Georgia.

    Simply speaking, people will be allowed only to discuss only something politically innocent such as cats, weather, flowers (except roses!) and their favorite food (but without mentioning skyrocketing food prices!).

    I doubt the GD would spend time and resources on total control of anyone speech or something like that, similar to Russian or Chinese censorship for internet right away – usually creating atmosphere of fear via precise imprisonment of few most active people works for some time. But later “Georgian Dream” terrorists gang can decide they don’t feel legitimate enough, and introduce even more legal bullshit whose sole purpose is to send more innocent people behind the bars.

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