Macedonia: The Internet must Fall - an Order from the Committe HQ | #член16

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- на македонски на Блогспот: Интернет мора да падне - наредба од Штабот на Комитетот | #член16     

Bribe, buy-off, take over, appropriate, intimidate and if that does not work, destroy the existing media. Meanwhile, open portals "which often publish insulting information and direct attacks on individuals, firms, companies." Conduct media lynches against those who have different opinions - faux lustrations, discrediting, purges. Avoid implementation of Criminal Code [mk] when your propagandists use hate speech with impunity to incite discord and inter-ethnic intolerance. 

Bring the situation with freedom of expression to a pitiful level.

Then, declare a "solution": The Internet "must be regulated"! [mk]

In short: Hungarian scenario in a banana republic.

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Because the new legislative "solutions" in Macedonia directly incite censorship through the defamation law, changes in the Criminal Code that reduce the penalties for hate speech and the limitations of the work of foreign correspondents with another bill... Find out more about the efforts of Macedonian activists who demand putting the legislative process on democratic foundations. And join in!

• Proclamation for Affirmation of Freedom of Expression (also in mk, sq) by the ad hoc CSO network Front for Freedom of Expression
•  Twitter discussion: #член16 – the hashtag entitled according to Article 16 of the Constitution of Macedonia which literately forbids censorship.

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• Analysis of the Draft-Law on Civil Defamation Liability by the Media Development Center 
• Macedonia: Danger of Censorship with the new Law on Insult and Defamation - reaction by Metamorphosis, Foundation on Internet and Society
• On October 9, 2012 almost two hundred websites participated in a day-long blackout in protest. On the Blackout [mk] - by Free Software Macedonia

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• Macedonian Draft Law may Introduce Online Censorship - EDRI
• CSOs Demand Public Debate on New Defamation Legislation - NGO Infocenter
• Law on insult and defamation - unacceptable for the Macedonian internet community
• Macedonia: Decriminalization of Defamation for Internet Censorship
• Macedonia: Law on Defamation Instigates Censorship and Contains Illogical Provisions