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Capitalism: Meet your future - one year in prison for visiting banned site
  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has ratified an anti-cybercrime law that rights groups say paves the way for censoring online media.

    The law, published Saturday in the country’s official gazette, empowers authorities to order the blocking of websites that publish content considered a threat to national security. Viewers attempting to access blocked sites can also be sentenced to one year in prison or fined up to EGP100,000 ($5,593) under the law.

    Last month, Egypt’s parliament approved a bill placing personal social media accounts and websites with over 5,000 followers under the supervision of the top media authority, which can block them if they’re found to be disseminating false news.

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  • tubefingerstubefingers

    Cheezus!!! Thats not good, pick and choose what offends the government and hey presto!! Off to jail you go :(

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    @tubefingers

    And you'll be amazed how soon it'll be in EU and later in US. Around 2 years tops.

  • tonalttonalt

    @Vitaliy_Kiselev Hahaha good joke!

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    @tonalt

    We'll see who has the last laugh :-)

  • caveportcaveport

    Seems to be the same as it ever was. Just newer technology. News sources have been heavily controlled by authoritarian regimes since.... forever. Nothing to do with capitalism. That's just Vitaliy flogging a dead horse! ;-)

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    News sources have been heavily controlled by authoritarian regimes since.... forever.

    And "authoritarian regimes" are? Only Egypt you mean? May be check UK and EU latest laws?

    Nothing to do with capitalism. That's just Vitaliy flogging a dead horse! ;-)

    Yes, yes, of course. But want to agree about dead horse, capitalism is exactly this, it is even half rotten.

  • caveportcaveport

    "And "authoritarian regimes" are? Only Egypt you mean? May be check UK and EU latest laws?"

    I mean that information control by the 'State' applies equally to the left & right of politics and is not tied to capitalism, which is what you imply in the topic title. There are many authoritarian regimes on both sides of politics.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    I mean that information control by the 'State' applies equally to the left & right of politics and is not tied to capitalism, which is what you imply in the topic title. There are many authoritarian regimes on both sides of politics.

    Information control happen even at family level.

    It is nice to understand things you talk about, as each state is dictatorship of the ruling class (yes, US and EU are no different to Egypt here!), but it is quite different if ruling class differ.

  • joetheprojoethepro

    Kinda like the kid in Russia who is facing 5 years in jail for downloading memes mocking religious hypocrisy...

    Or the case of a woman sentenced to 320 hours of community service for reposting a cartoon of Putin holding a knife over a map of Eastern Ukraine....

    Or the man who was sentenced to two years for sharing a picture of a toothpaste tube with the caption, "Squeeze Russia out of yourself"...

    Or Maria Motuznaya, a 23-year-old woman in Siberia who faces up to 6 years in prison that is being prosecuted for sharing memes that prosecutors say incite hatred and insult religious believers...

  • firstbasefirstbase

    @joethepro

    Ouch! Another pot calling the kettle black scenario, yes?

  • caveportcaveport

    @firstbase Exactly my point. Even this blog has an authoritarian approach to certain topics. There are good reasons for it, but hey, there's always a good reason behind these kind of restrictions, isn't there?

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