Can social media accounts be considered mass media? Images mixed by Tetyana Lokot.
In an unprecedented move, a Ukrainian court has equated a social media profile page with mass media outlets and sanctioned its owner for public calls to overthrow authorities.
On February 2, 2016, a municipal court in Sumy, north-eastern Ukraine, found a local VKontakte social network user guilty of “public calls for a violent overthrow of the constitutional order and seizing state power through the mass media.” According to part 3 of Article 109 of the Ukrainian criminal code, such actions are considered a criminal offence.
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Source: Global Voices
