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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: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @06:18AM (2 children)
The Insidious Covert Rebuttal to the Oblivious Rebuttal is khallow, whom I now suspect is a S.A.L.T. Devious Commies! First they go after our precious bodily fluids, and then they pretend to go out of existence, at the same time inventing the Internets, Through their agent Al Bore, funded by Giorgio Sores, and drive all the good people of the West insane with an overabundance of information that is impossible to vet, analyze, or fact-check.
It results in the narrowing of cognitive functions, causing it's victims to think that just saying "obvious rebuttal" is enough to prevail in any dispute. Or it may cause persons with little education to believe that they know as much as anyone, not realizing they they lack the context, the background, the wisdom and discrimination to deal with all the information now available on the internets, much as has happened to our own poor, dear, asshole, Runaway1917.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday February 13 2018, @06:27AM
Looks like it worked. Next.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday February 13 2018, @08:00AM
Is the Obvious Rebuttal drinking game limited to Khallow?
Asking for a friend's liver...