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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: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday February 13 2018, @03:30AM (5 children)
I have reasons to believe you'd better be worried of "How you will be able to argue on the internet if the Internet is under exclusive control by authoritarians?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Tuesday February 13 2018, @04:50AM (4 children)
-1 redundant, he already expressed his concerns about communists.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Tuesday February 13 2018, @05:11AM (3 children)
You say it like the communists are the only authoritarians on this planet!
Watch closer, you'll discover some in your own "yard".
(for some, even only a look into the mirror would suffice, if you know what I mean)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @04:11PM (2 children)
holy crap you managed to post without grinning at the end of it
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @04:18PM
even the grinning muscles must take a break from time to time
(Score: 2) by insanumingenium on Tuesday February 13 2018, @06:10PM
It's not easy having a good time! Even smiling makes my face ache!