Russia is seeking a crackdown on material that supposedly discourages having children. Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged couples to have children as the country’s birth rate drops.
A group of Russian lawmakers on Thursday approved legislation that would prohibit child-free “propaganda.”
“It is important to protect people, primarily the younger generation, from having the ideology of childlessness imposed on them on the internet, in the media, in movies, and in advertising,” Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of Russia’s lower house of parliament, or Duma, said.
So for example, they could go after you in Russia for explaining why you decided not to have kids because of the environmental impact if it’s implied you encourage others to do the same.
I haven’t read the law, but yes, a post like that could probably be considered propaganda.
That is assuming this law is similar to the other recent laws they’ve passed in the same vein, such as with criticizing the war, homosexuality, etc.