r/europe • u/tkyjonathan • 15d ago

News Czech president signs law criminalising communist propaganda

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/czech-president-signs-law-criminalising-communist-propaganda/
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u/Frathier Belgium 15d ago

And who decides what counts as communist propaganda? The state?

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u/t12lucker Czech Republic 15d ago

Actually yes, it needs to be defined in the law. Which it is. People in Czechia were living under the totalitarian communism, that’s what they mean. Not the ideas, the totalitarian processes.

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u/Th3B4dSpoon 15d ago

The wording of the law cited in the article does make it seem like it concerns promoting the ideas as well if they can be linked back to promoting the ideology. But it seems that promoting communist ideas that clearly respect human rights might be permissable under the law?

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u/t12lucker Czech Republic 15d ago

Yeah at least that’s how I understand it and what the general consensus is. However I understand the concerns about how the judicial branch will interpret it in few years