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posted by janrinok on Tuesday February 13 2018, @01:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-the-rich,-then? dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

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/


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by takyon on Tuesday February 13 2018, @03:37PM (9 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Tuesday February 13 2018, @03:37PM (#637142) Journal

    If there is a high road, you're not taking it with your recent comments.

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 13 2018, @10:01PM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @10:01PM (#637291) Journal

    Liiiiike I said, the guy is his own worst enemy. The last couple replies from him have been hilarious, in a nasty, taking-glee-in-others'-misfortune sort of way. I hope he keeps it up, even though for his own sake, he ought to make like a broken web form and quit POSTing...

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  • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday February 13 2018, @11:06PM (7 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 13 2018, @11:06PM (#637324) Journal

    With 'Zumi, there is no high road. It's just muck raking, insults, and idiocy.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Tuesday February 13 2018, @11:15PM (6 children)

      by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Tuesday February 13 2018, @11:15PM (#637328) Journal

      Lol, that's not how it works. If you believe that the comment you're looking it has no value, then YOU take the high road by choosing not to respond. Maybe even downvote it and move on.

      This is basic stuff, folks.

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      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday February 14 2018, @12:10AM (5 children)

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 14 2018, @12:10AM (#637352) Journal

        That is the normal, simple, easy response to worthless posts, yes.

        • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday February 14 2018, @01:47AM

          by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday February 14 2018, @01:47AM (#637399) Journal

          This is me not responding to Runaway. whom I have never met, by the way.

          whole intellects disgorged in total recall for seven days and nights with brilliant eyes, meat for the Synagogue cast on the pavement,
          who vanished into nowhere Zen New Jersey leaving a trail of ambiguous picture postcards of Atlantic City Hall,
          suffering Eastern sweats and Tangerian bone-grindings and migraines of China under junk-withdrawal in Newark’s bleak furnished room,
          who wandered around and around at midnight in the railroad yard wondering where to go, and went, leaving no broken hearts,
          who lit cigarettes in boxcars boxcars boxcars racketing through snow toward lonesome farms in grandfather night,
          who studied Plotinus Poe St. John of the Cross telepathy and bop kabbalah because the cosmos instinctively vibrated at their feet in Kansas,
          who loned it through the streets of Idaho seeking visionary indian angels who were visionary indian angels,
          who thought they were only mad when Baltimore gleamed in supernatural ecstasy,
          who jumped in limousines with the Chinaman of Oklahoma on the impulse of winter midnight streetlight smalltown rain,

          Right, more of Howl [poetryfoundation.org]

          But, there are other Americans [poetryfoundation.org]:

          The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me—he complains of my gab and my loitering.

          I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable;
          I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

          The last scud of day holds back for me;
          It flings my likeness after the rest, and true as any, on the shadow’d wilds;
          It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk.

          I depart as air—I shake my white locks at the runaway sun;
          I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.

          I bequeathe myself to the dirt, to grow from the grass I love;
          If you want me again, look for me under your boot-soles.

          You will hardly know who I am, or what I mean;
          But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
          And filter and fibre your blood.

          Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged;
          Missing me one place, search another;
          I stop somewhere, waiting for you.

          Talking about the Runaway, sun!

        • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday February 14 2018, @03:40AM (3 children)

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday February 14 2018, @03:40AM (#637437) Journal

          Then whyyyyyyy don't you do it, you triggered snowflake? (I know why, but I wanna see if you're spergtastic enough to flame out again in public and let everyone else know...)

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          • (Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday February 14 2018, @02:49PM (2 children)

            by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 14 2018, @02:49PM (#637600) Journal

            You really don't have a clue yet, do you? Despite the fact that I actually explained it to you once. Let me spell it out one more time:

            I'm laughing my ass off because I know that YOU are triggered! Go on, call the FBI and report me for online harassment and all that other crazy shit. You're funny, in a warped kind of way.

            • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 14 2018, @04:27PM (1 child)

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 14 2018, @04:27PM (#637649)

              Y'know, most people you get in a tithy over have probably seen The Big Lebowski, and if they haven't thought of it yet let me plant the idea. You are Walter, but less funny.

              We can all see how you are obviously calmer than Azuma. Though I never saw Walter exhibiting homosexual affinity towards a dead Greek.

              • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday February 14 2018, @08:44PM

                by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday February 14 2018, @08:44PM (#637863) Journal

                +1 Funny for the mental image :) Thanks, I needed that. Now all we need is for someone to piss on his rug, or maybe cut off heez chonson, LOL. Somevun who beleevz een NOSSING, Lebowski!

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