The court in Russia prohibited the distribution of a meme about gypsies from the “Big Kush”

The Ostankino court of Moscow forbade the spread of a meme with a phrase from the film “Big Kush” Guy Richie about hatred for gypsies, there is a decision in a court file, RBC reports.

The court examined the claim of the prosecutor of the North-Eastern Administrative District of Moscow on the prohibition of four links, “containing statements aimed at inciting interethnic growth and a complication of migration policy.”

Among them, a link to search for Yandex Pictures “a meme with a phrase from the” big meal “” I hate, ***, gypsies. ” She says Tommy, the hero of Stephen Graham, Turkish, played by Jason Steet, translated by actor of dubbing Dmitry Puchkov (Goblin). Other links lead to another meme about gypsies and the phrase “not to be a racist”, the article “Why don't the gypsies like?” And an article on Picabu, which is not available.

Links were found during the Internet monitoring. The court found that the materials are freely available and are aimed “to incite hostility towards the gypsies”, and agreed to satisfy the claim for their ban, including referring to normative acts of the fight against extremism. The decision was made on July 16 and entered into force on August 19.

Dmitry Puchkov in a conversation with RBC noted that “no [экстремистского] The message ”is not in the phrase from the“ big meal ”,“ the heroes voiced their racist views. ” If we prohibit this, then “this way will soon be banned for the shows“ shield and sword ”and“ 17 moments of spring ” – they voiced Nazi ideas and go with swastikas,” he added.

Recall that in May the Novgorod District Court fined by 1.5 thousand rubles. A resident of the region for a public demonstration of extremist symbols in the form of a meme with a frog Pepe and a photo of Clara Cetkin and Rosa Luxembourg.