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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, Disagree) by Thexalon on Tuesday February 13 2018, @02:35PM (1 child)

    by Thexalon (636) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @02:35PM (#637114)

    It's the easy and anonymous availability that makes it worse than the town square.

    Right. That's why, before the Internet came about, purveyors of complete nonsense were before the advent of the Internet completely unable to start religious [scientology.org] cults [wikipedia.org], terrorist [wikipedia.org] groups [wikipedia.org], and popular [wikipedia.org] conspiracy [wikipedia.org] theories [wikipedia.org]. Often relying on anonymity and pseudonyms to do so.

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    The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by bob_super on Tuesday February 13 2018, @05:24PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @05:24PM (#637201)

    Words.
    They have a meaning.
    You should try to understand their meaning, before you spend a lot of time responding to them.

    The words you want to consider reading again are my "easy" and "worse", and how they relate to your "completely unable", or not.