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Hungarian authorities have fined a bookseller for selling a British graphic novel without closed wrapping - saying it breached a controversial law on LGBT literature for under-18s.

The Lira Kiskereskedelmi Kft retailer was fined 12m forints (£27,400) for selling a Heartstopper book without wrapping it in plastic foil. Officials said the book depicted homosexuality and was sold to minors. The love story, about two teenage boys, has been made into a Netflix series.

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[-] weeahnn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe, maybe not. But at the end of the day it doesn't matter, the outcome is still the same. Hungary is a failed country where the ruling party steals as much as it's possible, while everything, healthcare, education, infrastructure, etc. is falling apart.

Besides they are "conservatives" (read reactionaries), so they will always need to have some enemies that they can use, to distract the sheepish population from the real problems. Not that their voters actually care about their own well-being either, they just want to own the libz (read the EU, Brussels, the actual libz, the left, the Jews, the gays, and the list could go on and on.) and live in constant fear.

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