Rada Committee supports draft law on decriminalization of porn: what will change
Kyiv • UNN
The Verkhovna Rada's Law Enforcement Committee has supported draft law No. 12191 on the decriminalization of pornography with 11 votes in favor. The document is intended to amend Article 301 of the Criminal Code regarding the storage and distribution of intimate content.
The Parliamentary Committee on Law Enforcement has supported draft law No. 12191 on the "decriminalization of porn" with 11 votes in favor. The document should amend Article 301 of the Criminal Code regarding the storage and distribution of intimate content, MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak reported on Telegram, UNN reports.
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"The good news is that the Law Enforcement Committee has just supported our draft law No. 12191 on decriminalization of porn as a basis. "There were 11 votes in favor . Abstentions - 2," Zheleznyak wrote.
He noted that this version is "more conservative and has been prepared for more than a year in discussion with the committee and working group." "I hope we will be able to bring it to the parliament early next year," the MP said.
"This is exactly the decriminalization of porn. This is not 'legalization of porn' - it is legalized, and we have been collecting millions of taxes from the same OnlyFans for a couple of years now," Zheleznyak emphasized.
The MP briefly explained what is envisaged: "We're just changing Article 301 of the Criminal Code so that adults don't go to prison for 3-5 years for making and distributing intimate videos. That's all.
"This is the 'decriminalization of porn'. So that people are not thrown in jail for storing content or massive "secret purchases" are not made from webcams.) At the same time, now under Article 301, you can be punished even for storing nude photos on your personal phone," he said.
The MP is convinced that "there will be a lot of revisions before the second reading." "The law will still be finalized. But now we need to move forward with the law. This has become especially important due to the situation with the taxation of OnlyFans models and the BES happiness letters, which you heard about last week in the media.
"I am asking my fellow politicians to ask how many of our citizens have been convicted of this before they joke about it or write populist statements like 'this is what they do during the war'. And how many had to go abroad. The topic is fun, but only up to this point. As soon as you start to realize that it is about living people, it becomes very sad," Zheleznyak said.
