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‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner

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

MrPlow writes:

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: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday February 13 2018, @10:01AM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 13 2018, @10:01AM (#637056) Journal

    What happened to "beware of him who would deny you access to information, for in his mind he dreams himself your master?"

    Last I checked, is still a quip in the Alpha Centauri, when you build the "Planetary Datalinks" secret project.
    A bit ironically, the full quote is

    As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday February 13 2018, @04:52PM (1 child)

    by Freeman (732) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @04:52PM (#637192) Journal

    It's not like the game created some nonsensical phrase. A game designer came up with the quote. Quite possibly Brian Reynolds. "Reynolds researched science fiction for the game's writing.[42] His inspiration included "classic works of science fiction", including Frank Herbert's The Jesus Incident and Hellstrom's Hive, A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge, and The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle for alien races; Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars, Slant by Greg Bear, and Stephen R. Donaldson's The Real Story for future technology and science; and Dune by Herbert and Bear's Anvil of Stars for negative interactions between humans.[47][48]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Meier's_Alpha_Centauri [wikipedia.org]

    Personally, I think it's quite a good quote. Knowledge is something that should be accessible to all.

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    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: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Wednesday February 14 2018, @01:11AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 14 2018, @01:11AM (#637389) Journal

      As long as we don't attribute the quote to Will Shatner or Abe Lincoln, that's Ok with me!

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