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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: 5, Interesting) by crafoo on Tuesday February 13 2018, @01:50AM (11 children)
A person living in a strong society with good education and a sense of self-worth and what they consider a meaningful life is not going to be phased by what they find on the internet.
He's advocating for hiding the truth of what it means to be human because he believes people are to fragile to understand. Possibly his ideas of what it is to be human cannot withstand the truth. And it displeases him.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @01:56AM (1 child)
Triggered!! Rerouting crafoo's internet access to protect him from crazy Russian ideas!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @04:12PM
Huh, looks like you got triggered by the messenger. I'm no fan of crafoos usual politics, but this was spot on.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Nerdfest on Tuesday February 13 2018, @02:00AM (3 children)
What exactly does most information on the internet (these days) have to do with truth?
(Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday February 13 2018, @02:14AM
Nakedness.
You may not be able to find the naked truth on internet, but you'll find plenty of other naked substitutes.
And that's The Truth (that will set you free).
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday February 13 2018, @03:11AM
Jayda Fransen, of Britain First, tweeted some terrific "tapes." Very educational! But Twitter deleted them after I retweeted. Sad!
The "tape" of the 2 girls and the cup, so interesting. Not many people know, they are actresses, they got paid to perform in that one. VERY SPECIAL JOB!
(Score: 2) by crafoo on Saturday February 17 2018, @04:17PM
Taken at face value, no. What is expressed there as a whole though is the _most_ human truth you will ever find. You cannot deny it, you cannot shout it down, you cannot pretend it doesn't exist. Humans made this and they populated it with information, mostly uncensored until recently.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @05:35AM (1 child)
Note that he is not alone in proposing that. China is already shaping the Internet big time. Yes, a strong person, intelligent and independent, will not care about calls to $somethingBad. But the truth is that many (or some) people are too fragile to understand. Our way of handling this is to give everyone the full potential to raise themselves or to sink themselves and become homeless drunkards in the extreme case. These fragile people bought tulips, south seas shares, and now bitcoins. We do not try to save them from themselves - in part because someone will be saving us one day against our wishes. Free people (or believing to be relatively free) refuse such control. We want to make our own mistakes. But at the same time we (except the nearest friends, if they know) allow fragile people to incur catastrophic losses. This is the morale of free people.
But this is not the only moral system in the world, as the axioms of Euclid are not the only set of axioms, and we are not constrained to a plane. Alferov & communists, including Chinese, use a different set of axioms. They do not postulate personal freedom, but they postulate universal happiness (so to say.) To that end their system takes control over personal freedoms in order to flatten the differences. It worked in USSR so well, that only few inventors would care to invent anything. This moral system is as valid as any other - it is just alien to us, as would be a social setup of a hive civilization, for example.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 13 2018, @05:49AM
No it fucking isn't. That screed ignores human nature entirely. We *aren't* a hive civilization and trying to make us one will just result in mass death, as it has the last several times the hardcore Communists tried that.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Touché) by frojack on Tuesday February 13 2018, @06:04AM (2 children)
Exactly what the hell is a "strong society"?
Sounds like someone's pet idea of social control or a Utopian dream.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday February 14 2018, @04:36PM
I would postulate that all 1st world countries have a "strong society" and there are many "developing countries"/ 3rd World countries that also have "strong societies". I would call any society strong, if a significant portion of the local population truly believes in it's ideals. I'm guessing that's not what they were getting at though. I'm guessing they were going with something more along the lines of "For the Motherland!", all other forms of society are weak pathetic things in comparison.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by crafoo on Saturday February 17 2018, @04:25PM
A strong tradition and a mostly unified culture. A shared past. Long-standing traditions that support social stability. Common touchstones weaved throughout spiritual, historical, and day-to-day habits and activities. Common foods that have evolved over time with the culture. Of course a common written and spoken language.
You meet a person on the street and you know with some reasonable amount of certainty that you both share a common culture and are working towards common goals that extend beyond your lifetime.
If you hate these ideas. Maybe take 15 minutes out of your day to think about why exactly that is. Did you come to this decision yourself? Do you immediately imagine this common culture as opposed to your personal beliefs, or that you would be the outsider? Please consider why you believe this.