Anti-gay lawmaker targets Game of Thrones as threat to traditional values

'Game of Thrones' TV show poster (Image from imdb.com)

‘Game of Thrones’ TV show poster (Image from imdb.com)

A pro-Christian politician is suggesting an official rating of various creative works, saying such a measure would help to protect the population from various harmful products, such as the popular TV series, Game of Thrones.

Vitaliy Milonov of the St. Petersburg city legislature addressed
the Russian Culture Ministry with an initiative to develop the
concept of defending the national information space,”
the popular Russian daily Izvestia reported on Monday.

The essence of Milonov’s draft is that the authorities issue a
rating for all creative works, giving them “quality marks” if
they match the nation’s traditional values, and attaching
negative appraisals to potentially harmful products. The lawmaker
holds that the general public will bear this rating in mind when
making choices regarding entertainment.

In comments with Izvestia, Milonov said that virtually all
Western cultural products were destructive for Russian
traditional values and this especially applied to many famous
works.

They are infusing all quality works with certain ideological
content. 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 that such an approach prevented creative works from
being listed as propaganda as the main influence was on the
subconscious level. “Freedom of expression is just a flashy
label that conceals the cancerogenic ideological additives
,”
Milonov said.

The lawmaker said that the cult US television series Game of
Thrones was a typical example of such a harmful product. He
blamed the authors for picturing “every tenth character
of the series as having some sexual deviation and suggested this
was done on purpose, so that the public saw such deviations as
the norm.

At the same time, Milonov admitted to reporters that he had not
seen a single episode.

The cultural rating isn’t the first or the most eccentric
suggestion drafted by Milonov over the past few years. He has in
the past proposed outlawing child beauty pageants, organizing the
forced resettlement of homeless people to rural areas, and
introducing responsibility for fake accounts in social networks.

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Milonov’s most known work is the St. Petersburg regional law that
bans promoting homosexuality to minors – a motion that has been
passed on a nationwide level, despite widespread criticism in
Russia and abroad.

Milonov’s relentless campaigning has attracted a lot of public
and media attention, but it also had some negative consequences
for the lawmaker. In November last year, Upper House MP
Konstantin Dobrynin asked law enforcers to probe Milonov over
public calls for terrorism, saying the St. Petersburg politician
has repeatedly and insistently made statements banned under the
Federal Law against Extremism. However, this request was turned
down by prosecutors.

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