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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, 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.