Independent media council and National council do not consider content regulation of TV channels censorship

The Independent media council and the National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council of Ukraine do not consider regulation of the TV channels' content a case of censorship. Based on results of the meeting, the Independent Media Council came to a common vision of the necessity to regulate the content and proposed some practical recommendations. This was the subject of the public discussion on July 5 of the media council on the topic “Audiovisual content: regulate or not?”, “Detector media” reports.

The discussion was also attended by representatives of public media organizations, international institutions, and journalists.