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Russian Communist Party MP and Nobel Prize-winner Zhores Alferov has urged restrictions on internet access, saying unlimited access to information can harm people's morals and mental health.
"The internet must have limitations and it must not be available to everyone," Alferov stated in a recent interview with Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily. He went on to explain that in his opinion the total lack of control and restrictions of the net can affect people's behavior and damage publicly-accepted moral guidelines.
"By making fools of our population today we will have a lot of problems," he said.
In the same interview, Alferov said he personally did not expect any conflicts between humanity and artificial intelligence in future, but stated that it was wrong to "fully trust a machine."
Alferov is a world-renowned physicist, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics. He is also a State Duma MP representing the largest opposition party, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF).
But... Who will I argue with if there aren't any commies on the Internet?
Source: https://www.rt.com/politics/418544-internet-should-not-be-accessible/
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Arik on Tuesday February 13 2018, @01:41AM (5 children)
Bout time someone did.
"saying unlimited access to information can harm people's morals and mental health."
We could start by restricting him. It's not that access to information can harm peoples morals, or their mental health, that's absolute brain-rot. It's that having people of low morals and suspect mental health, combined with said brain rot, on the internet is bad for the internet.
It's not particularly good for the rotten brains either I guess, but they're done either way, swinehood having no remedy.
I guess what I'm trying to say is 'forget about protecting normies from the internet, it's the internet that needs to be protected from the normies.'
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Immerman on Tuesday February 13 2018, @02:08AM
I'm not so sure. I've known some bright, basically decent people who retired and got into killing ime watching way too much Youtube. To the point where they were totally taken in by Trump, and are still eating up the shock-jocks and propaganda machines.
The filter bubble can do horrible things to a person, with too much time on your hands there just ain't no bottom to that rabbit hole.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Sulla on Tuesday February 13 2018, @03:28AM (3 children)
The freedom of the internet unfortunately shows how shitty every attempt at communism has been, no shit a commie would want it regulated.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @01:56PM (2 children)
It will show this for pretty much every society model mankind has ever attempted.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by tangomargarine on Tuesday February 13 2018, @04:20PM
"Democracy is the worst form of government...except for all the other ones."
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Wednesday February 14 2018, @12:30AM
Lenin's attempt at communism lead to cannibalism in 1921-22 due to redistribution of crops, Stalin helped achieve that milestone in 1932-33, and Mao doubled down in 1959-61. Pol Pot dabbled in it off and on from 1963-81. In Venezuelan prisons cannibalism has been occurring. Some of the people who have managed to escape from North Korea have recounted their horror at the practice occurring in times of famine because of government control of the food supply.
While cannibalism has arisen at other times in human history, there is no form of government that appears to make it a policy through purposeful attempts at government control of the food supply.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam