Anti-gay Russian lawmaker calls for ‘Game of Thrones’ ban
By Will Stroude
Is Game of Thrones about to become the latest victim of Russia’s anti-gay crackdown?
Apparently not content with haranguing local LGBT groups or introducing anti-gay ‘propaganda’ legislation in his city district of St Petersburg, notorious anti-gay politician Vitaly Milonov has called for new censorship laws to counter the show’s hot – sorry, harmful – content.
Milonov addressed the Russian Culture Ministry with new censorship plans for “defending the national information space,” Russian daily Izvestia reports.
Using the hit HBO show as an example, the 41 year-old said that Western shows in particular were bypassing propaganda laws and presenting “deviation” as the norm.
“They are infusing all quality works with certain ideological content,” he said. “This content is not crucial for the main idea of the work, because this would make it too direct, but still they demonstrate that the ideas that had once been inadmissible are now normal.”
He added: “Freedom of expression is just a flashy label that conceals the cancerogenic ideological additives.”
Milonov went on to say that “every tenth character” in Game of Thrones was sexually deviant (we’d say it’s at least one in five, tbh) but admitted he’d never actually seen an episode.
If you need a quick reminder of some of the deviance Vitaly’s on about, just take a look here, here, here, and here.
Personally, we’re just wondering what he’d make of that Iron Throne recreation made entirely of dildos.
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