Quote from: DaRude on Today at 01:00:49 AM

Quote from: suchmoon on August 05, 2022, 01:29:42 PM

Quote from: DaRude on August 05, 2022, 05:42:07 AM

I'd be hard pressed to come up with a dumber example as justification to put "severe restrictions" on books. Just because you found a book you disagree with? I'm sure there are no books in other languages that contain controversial topics? With such high standards for books, surely "mein kampf" would be "restricted" too right? huh, of course not, doesn't even need an exception Roll Eyes

whataboutwhataboutwhataboutwhataboutwhataboutwhataboutwhataboutwhataboutwhatabo ut fucking hell do they not teach you anything else in the Kremlin troll academy LOL

But yeah, if Mein Kampf was being used by Russians to brainwash children in occupied territories, the import restrictions would likely apply to it as well.

Ah whataboutism, there's no hypocrisy or double standard that it cannot justify. Weren't you taught that whataboutism cannot apply when creating laws? And is actually called discrimination in law. But i must agree it's a convenient tool to prevent population from questioning any and all laws.

If your logic leads you to the following conclusion, think it's safe to say that you're on the wrong side of the argument:
Masha and the Bear = brainwashing children, needs to be censored, require exceptions to import
Mein kampf = totally fine for unlimited circulation without age restriction

Quote from: TwitchySeal on August 05, 2022, 04:45:35 PM

Quote from: suchmoon on August 05, 2022, 01:29:42 PM

Quote from: DaRude on August 05, 2022, 05:42:07 AM

I'd be hard pressed to come up with a dumber example as justification to put "severe restrictions" on books. Just because you found a book you disagree with? I'm sure there are no books in other languages that contain controversial topics? With such high standards for books, surely "mein kampf" would be "restricted" too right? huh, of course not, doesn't even need an exception Roll Eyes

whataboutwhataboutwhataboutwhataboutwhataboutwhataboutwhataboutwhataboutwhatabo ut fucking hell do they not teach you anything else in the Kremlin troll academy LOL

But yeah, if Mein Kampf was being used by Russians to brainwash children in occupied territories, the import restrictions would likely apply to it as well.

Some better whataboutism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_governments

https://web.archive.org/web/20110626083725/http://www.minjust.ru/ru/activity/nko/fedspisok

You seem to be confusing censoring 60% of all of the books on UA market based only on the language they're written in and censoring eight specific books.

Oh no, I wasn't trying to compare Ukraine's book bans that took place after being invaded by and while still at war with long standing Russian policy. They aren't the same thing at all.

I thought I was against banning any book for any reason....but I have to admit "that country just invaded us, unprovoked and have been running around calling us nazis, blowing up random buildings and murdering thousands of random civilians in our country for the past 6 months, Putin is doing to us what Stalin did to Ukrainians a couple generations ago" seems like an acceptable excuse to ban imports of books from Russia/Belarus, and inspecting all Russian books for Russian propaganda.