Russian news programs may be blocked in Moldova
The bill to prevent and combat misinformation and the spread of false information in the media space was voted by Parliament in the second reading with votes of 54 deputies. The document provided for the Code of Audiovisual Media Services of the Republic of Moldova and aims to prevent and combat misinformation attempts, which affect the appropriate national security. jurnal.md.
Thus, the Code of Audiovisual Media Services of the Republic of Moldova has been supplemented with the notion of “misinformation” and related sanctions, in case the providers or distributors of media content will violate the legislation.
The bill stipulates that media service providers who will broadcast content qualified as misinformation or as information that affects the security of the audiovisual information space risk large fines, up to the withdrawal of the broadcasting right for a certain period.
The Code was also supplemented by provisions that media service providers will not broadcast, and media service distributors will not broadcast television and radio audiovisual programs with informative, informative-analytical, military and political content that were produced in States other than Member States of the European Union, the United States of America, Canada and States which have ratified the European Convention on Transfrontier Television, with the exception of films and entertainment programs which do not have a militaristic content.
Media service providers will not broadcast, and media service providers will not broadcast audiovisual programs that, regardless of their origin, justify wars of aggression, deny war crimes and crimes against humanity, or incite hatred.
Earlier, the Bloc of Communists and Socialists and the Șor Party declared in unison that through this current initiative the power wants to impose censorship.