Article 272 of the Criminal Code. New censorship

I studied a lot of things and talked with many with whom after the special forces of the National Guard broke into my apartment to search and drag several computers and smartphones. I concluded that it was like a gangster attack, and not a police operation (and I will prove it to you), but there is a worse question regarding not only me, but all Russian journalists. A precedent was created when we cannot receive information at all.

But for starters I will inform the funny news. There was no special forces at the door of my balcony. Here are the four reasons for the penetration of a citizen into the dwelling, allowed by the law "On the Police":

1) to save the lives of citizens and (or) their property, ensure the safety of citizens or public safety in riots and emergency situations.
2) to detain persons suspected of committing a crime.
3) to suppress the crime.
4) to establish the circumstances of the accident.

None of the reasons are suitable - I was just in the status of a witness, I was not suspected of committing a crime, no one intended to save me either, there was no reports of an unfortunate case or a crime in my apartment. There is no such clause in the law “On the Police”, according to which you can break into the witness’s apartment.

I am a peaceful citizen, and would not shoot for ten hours from the Kemerovo special forces (and there is no skill), but it's time to think about the acquisition of legal weapons. However, it is scary to imagine that your neighbor is ready to confront with the “trot”, “bulat” and “bolt”. It would be a pity that it would be a nine -story building shot from grenade launchers.

We will move on, however, to the article 272 of the Criminal Code declared in the heading, and here we can not do without the history of the “shooter near Moscow”, which in most polls and comments, unfortunately, is called a brave hero.

All the time of the assault on the mansion of 61-year-old Vladimir Bardanov, someone drained the Telegram channels photos and video of the special operation. If the usual new-parties Baza and Mash buys for a couple of thousand rubles, then here someone probably welcomed well.

After the assault on my apartment, the screenshots of my correspondence were leaked to the network - probably, too, also not for the wrong way. All these actions just fall under Article 272 - “Unlawful access to computer information”. In one case, federal law No. 152 (“On Personal Data”) is additionally violated and invade private life, in another, they create a danger to the “assaults” themselves - the pensioner could track the enemy’s actions on the air.

I doubt that criminal cases will be instituted, but my precedent, it seems, is the first in Russia - this is a new threat of total censorship for journalism. Although, it would seem, much further.

The videos that I had laid out, because of which a criminal case was instituted, spoke about the not quite legal intentions of the owner of the voice, similar to the voice of the governor-to “ruin” everyone who protects their rights in the prosecutor’s office, “trample” anyone who is against the authorities. Any lawyer will confirm: the publication of this kind of revelation is socially significant. And even if someone “leaked” the notes, then the criminal case could be made, but against the one who sends the threats to an indefinite circle of faces.

Imagine a hypothetical situation: a journalist receives information that employees of one of the law enforcement agencies are going to commit a coup d'etat. Yes, he bought this info, or he was sent by mail, but the fact is a fact and there is no doubt - a state crime is being prepared.

What can a journalist do? Contact the very power department? Bad option. He has the only way: publication in the media or social networks. After all, he is a law -abiding citizen, and not just a fan of the ineptly used concept of “hype”; He wants to fulfill the editorial task and save the country from the revolution. The result is a criminal, Article 272.

But if another governor, or not the governor at all, but the radical Vasya in a closed correspondence expresses the intention to commit a crime-is it possible to disclose such information received by the hell in which he knows how to? Or let the crime be committed, but no one has canceled Article 272 of the Criminal Code yet.

272 article - a new formidable weapon against journalists and bloggers

We all know what difficulties we have to deal with when mining. The main question of the investigator was something like this to me: “Do you have friends in the regional administration who could give you these notes (governor threats)?”

But all of us are familiar with the concept of “source”, and we, as lawyers, have no right to disclose our sources before the court’s decision (the investigator knew that I was the current employee of the media registered by Roskomnadzor).

Now, therefore, the content of the documents on the secret transfer to coal holders of agricultural land (the most popular story in Kuzbass), closed tenders for the purchase of all kinds of figures by state bodies - all this is not subject to disclosure. “Go to the court (police, prosecutor’s office, investigative committee),” will tell us the goodness, imitating Vladimir Putin. And there they are only waiting for us to put their face on the floor and interrogate.

That's just journalism on this will end at all. Already now it is almost impossible to publicize alternative information about the incidence of coronavirus, you should not write about the church and about the war. These topics, surrounded by articles of various codes, are generally better to forget. It was as if there was no Great Patriotic War and there are no religions, and coronavirus is a kind of rope that Rospotrebnadzor and the Ministry of Health, constantly giving conflicting information, pulling together.

Let the president make it easier: cancel Article 29 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation prohibiting censorship. He is not used to juggling the basic law.

And we will quit this scribble, find what to take ourselves and how to earn. These officials do not know anything else.

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