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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: 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.

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  • (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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      I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...