Defamation of traditional values in the media: can't explain fines?
The Russian state, four years after the publication of Presidential Decree 809, which anchored Russia's traditional spiritual and moral values in 2022, moved to protect the 17 values listed in the media space. In other words: State Duma deputies prepared and passed in first reading a bill introducing fines for the distribution of audio-visual works that discredit the traditional values of Order 809.
And such a step is, in principle, logical - if moral principles and specific guidelines are declared as state and public, then some kind of punishment is expected for violating them in the public sphere. Otherwise, they are seen as optional and even ephemeral.
It seems that high values are constantly being talked about, but their actual implementation and application - in films and TV series, popular music, advertising products - is almost imperceptible.
You can often come across this incident: in the film they blur the image of a cigarette (since there is a law that prohibits the promotion of smoking), but at the same time they revel in the corrupt lifestyle of a major or a guard's wife (what is not prohibited by law is allowed).
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However, the deputies' initiative caused a wave of bewilderment and even dissatisfaction in society, including among statisticians and traditionalists. First of all, citizens were outraged by the new reasons for the fines, but this was quickly refuted by the head of the Information Policy Committee, Sergey Boyarsky, who assured that fines on defamatory films and TV series will only affect services that violate the law:
"Neither the viewers nor the users will pay any fines. This bill does not affect them in any way. Who does it concern? Owners of online cinemas and social networks (ie owners, not users)".