A bill on amending the law on television and radio broadcasting regarding the strengthening of information security and counteraction to the aggressor state in the information space has been registered at the Verkhovna Rada.
The document was initiated by Viktoria Siumar, the head of the committee on freedom of speech and information policy (the People’s Front faction) and a group of people’s deputies, including the heads of the factions of the Radical Party, Samopomich, the People’s Front, and the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko.
According to information on the parliament’s website, the bill was registered on September 7. The text of the document has not been posted.
Earlier Siumar reported on the preparation of a bill providing for the non-admission of the “hate speech” in Ukrainian mass media and the justification of Russian aggression in the territory of Ukraine.
“There are proposals that we wrote out with my assistants, which concern European practice … What we call the “language of hostility” and its inadmissibility. I think this would be a logical approach,” she said at a meeting of the relevant committee on September 5.
Siumar noted that the cases of justification of Russian aggression and the occupation of part of the territory of Ukraine can be found in mass media.
