Legislation introduced yesterday in the Duma — the lower house of the Russian parliament — would classify media content determined to be “promoting” LGBTQ relations as “propaganda” under federal law
Meta Platforms Inc. – i.e. Facebook — 4 million roubles, which equates to $177,000, under the 2013 law for failing to delete posts that contained what the court deemed “LGBT propaganda.”The new bill would apply to all film, TV and internet content and expand the ban on the “promotion of nontraditional sexual relations” to content seen by any audience of any age. It also seeks to ban any other information displaying “non-traditional sexual relations or perversions.
Most major studios and networks have already suspended operations in Russia, so the impact on Hollywood will likely be minimal in the short term. That doesn’t look likely to change soon. The war in Ukraine, over which most multinationals pulled out of Russia, continues with little indication of when it might end. And, given the U.S. is set on December 5 to
permitting financial institutions to process payments related to Russian oil, government sanctions look primed to increase, not decrease.
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