Censorship on the Internet : the Vault of hearts and kittens worth billions

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Цензура в интернете : Хранилище сердечек и котят стоит миллиарды

Censorship initiative of the state Duma in the IT field: from news to total interception of all correspondence on the Internet. Why would they increase the hell?

7 April in the state Duma a draft law № 1039149-6, obliging mobile operators and Internet service providers three years to keep all traffic on their networks, so all our conversations online and on the mobile phone, our emails, posts on social networks, comments, requests in the search engines, the message in the messengers, our symbols, smileys, hearts and other things that usually send and share than men.
Show… This is an unprecedented document in the history of Russia, rich on police initiatives and innovations Lubyanka.

The bill will be submitted to the Duma on may 11. In principle, this is all you need to know about the Duma and its intellectual and moral level,
and here the text can be completed.

But we still continue, because a detailed description of the idiocies of power has always been a constant theme of Russian journalism. We present this police megaproject carried out and see the set here and there in the vastness of the country’s giant data centers with server racks, occupying square miles, will see thousands of computers, recording in real time business negotiations business laughter telling jokes men Twitter girls, discussing boys, will see huge arrays of hard drives, which day after day and month after month, day stored mountains of terabytes and petabytes, contain the whole of human life. Every breath in the handset, every thought, wrapped up in the word, every statement about authority and faith, money and soul, politics and religion — all, all will be saved and if necessary presented as irrefutable evidence of the intentions or thoughtcrime.

But stop! But let! And how much is all this gonna cost us? There are various assessments in any case, it is tens of billions of dollars. Police megaproject in the country, where pensioners save the RUB on the food, where the number of poor is growing by millions per year, where every spring the leaky roofs of dilapidated housing with rotten walls and the road is indistinguishable from the off-road? How much should we pay extra for the Internet and mobile communication, to pay for the data centers with the main and standby data retention, and the army Lubyanka fillers, which will be day and night to rummage in the digital dumps, looking for sedition?

For the money they certainly will not stand. Because no money, they shouldn’t be willing to tear us.

We are dealing with a warped understanding of high-tech.

A normal person, seeing the knife, thought of the sausage, crazy — exclusively about murder. Sane person, seeing the power cord, thinking about the light, maniac — on torture. And with high technology.
Where normal people see engineering and software genius is a great opportunity for the development, improvement, new world, state Duma deputies, moonlighting as part-time heroes books Saltykov-Shchedrin, see the way to hell.

Simultaneously with the draft law on universal tapping with the preservation of its results on three years moving through the maze of bureaucracy bill No. 1004188-6 about news aggregators equated to mass media. This project is on page 21, where with a dull monotony alternate favorite by each clerk, the words “not allow”, “check” and “ensure”, full of blogopoly, like the one that requires to prevent the use of news aggregator “in order to commit criminal offences”. This outstanding depth of thought the phrase should be included in all instructions on the use of vegetable cutter and nails, because they can also be used to commit crimes. But all this is just preamble and the formality, required in order to tell the main thing.

The main thing is to deprive news aggregators the opportunity to report news that authorities do not like. How to do it? The same antiquated way acted to tyrants and dictators in history, to censor. The words of the bill there, but there are “authorized state bodies”, which will apply to Roskomnadzor, which will “take measures to stop the dissemination of such information”. Authorities, oversight, action, take action — again we hear the long hateful, disastrous sounding throughout Russian history the squeaky voice of the censor, again we see fatface policeman, which to the editor with my orders, and ruling with a gray face of a devil who starts the interrogation.

The bill on the news aggregators, as well as the bill on universal wiretapping, it is really only about one, very important, even vital of police control over the country. All of these requirements to establish a register of aggregators, that is, to rewrite the Internet over the heads and tie his feet and hands with twine, all of these are registered with the bureaucratic sadism of the procedure of capture and adamlevine, all these and similar prohibitions on the participation of foreigners and international organizations, especially the ridiculous and unenforceable on the Internet, where portals and websites have a universal, world-wide character, is talking only about the manic fear these people get away from the danger, which threatens them every posted on Facebook the cat and every news aggregator issuing hundreds of news a day from seven thousand sources.

To read these bills is painful. Painful because struggling to understand what prompted the authors to write them — and can’t. What a shock and humiliation to happen to a man, so he switched from human language to unthinkable among the living office jargon, from which blows a hundred miles of dead bodies, what would happen to their immortal soul that she is thoroughly imbued with the poison of evil and malevolence to compatriots?

Policiesin the farther the more gets into every cell of society, upiraetsya in any business, podselje itself in the handset, the computer, to the Internet a single purpose: to prevent that terrible, what these people Wake up at night with ice cold then on his forehead. But of course, they achieve nothing, make a bill a day. They can record all traffic and to turn the building on Lubyanka square in one huge hard drive, but it’s nothing you can’t give them because it will be a hard drive filled with encrypted information. Encryption is becoming the standard in the Internet, the share of encrypted traffic all over the world from year to year grows, WhatsApp and Viber included for their customers encryption end-to-end. They may, in his administrative action is the first to give at least ten locks a day, but it may not lead to anything, because

all of them how violent and senseless the activity is refuted with a single click of the user, includes free vpn browser Opera.
They can prevent news aggregators, but it doesn’t change anything, because every tape of Facebook is a news aggregator. Replaced little a big information portals will come hundreds of little, that’s all.

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The draft law, news aggregators equated to mass media, passed the first reading, “Yandex” and Mail.ru already said that will be forced to close its news services, if the law will come into force. According to experts, will lose in the end, readers and the media who together with partners-aggregators will lose some of their audiences. According to the document, news aggregators, with attendance of more than one million people a day will be required to verify the accuracy of the information in those publications is that they are aggregated, and incur liability, if reprinted in media texts the law is broken. In addition, they impose the same restrictions on foreign ownership as for the media: foreign citizens and companies cannot own the aggregators and keep more than 20% of the shares. The law obliges to store within six months information about the news source. For violation of the law the company is waiting for an administrative fine of up to five million rubles.

Vasily Gatov, medeanalytics, Vice-President of the Russian Guild of press publishers:

“The meaning of such ideas in the naive assumption that banning anything is an effective way of fighting. From the industrial point of view this bill is nonsense, from the point of view of the media as an institution is stupid. From the point of view of civil — this is another limitation of the right to information. From the point of view of corporate law — another paranoid regulation with the purpose to exclude foreign influence.”

Anton Nosik, Internet expert, says that if the aggregators will actually stop working, many users have to change their habits: “Those who are accustomed to read news on the main pages of search engines, more will not find them there and will be forced to switch to the sites of news agencies or big media — or even to abandon the news.

If you close the “Yandex.News” will drop many sites, nearly 10 million people have used aggregator in the last 15 years, they existed because people were interested in them as a tool. Partners of “Yandex” was 50 000 the media.”

Leonid Levin, Chairman of the Committee on information policy, information technologies and communication: “Our job is to allow government agencies to remove aggregators of already banned materials which by decision of Roskomnadzor should be removed from websites, published them, but remain available as portals, copied the message, or in the cache search engine”.

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