Anonymous time on the net seems to be passing. Bash with impunity, introducing destruction into the minds of Russian citizens and not responding to anything at the same time, it will soon become impossible. They talked about the need to adopt the relevant laws in the Federation Council. Obviously, the State Duma will support the initiative. In 2017, the lower house of parliament has already adopted a law regulating the work of instant messengers. Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin then explained that the law is aimed at protecting the security of the Russian Federation. It's time to take the next step ...
According to Senator Lyudmila Bokova, who heads the working group on the development of the information society, Internet users, and in particular social networks, should be taken out of the shadows, because anonymity on the network contributes to the commission of various kinds of crimes - both economic and against the individual. “As in ordinary life we are responsible for our own actions, we must also be responsible for breaking the law on the Internet,” the senator emphasized. Well, you can’t argue. It is strange that they seriously turned to the topic only now.
The given Lateral argumentation is extensive. Here is cyberbullying, when well-known and not very people are being harassed, and problems with the influence of the network in the teenage environment, but the main argument is political and concerns the country's security. Social networks and instant messengers, the senator recalled, are actively used in the preparation of riots both in the world and in Russia. “In groups and chats, not only calls for participation in the riots are distributed, but also specific instructions for their implementation,” says Bokova.
Sorry, the senator is not speaking. And it would be worth giving a vivid example of the events taking place right now in Hong Kong. The Chinese Foreign Ministry has just called the situation with street protests in this former British colony the most serious problem that Beijing faced after the transfer of the PRC region. The American magazine The National Interest compares what is happening with the Maidan. Is it a joke - over a million protesters coordinating their actions in the virtual space, street battles with the police. There is no obvious leader, but there are instigators. As a result, Beijing launched a major campaign to deanonymize these people.
The United States did not fail to take advantage of the situation. The head of the political department of the US Consulate General in Hong Kong, Julie Ide, meets with street opposition representatives, encouraging further slaughter. The pictures were published by the Takunpao newspaper, which has already led to a diplomatic scandal. The Chinese Foreign Ministry demanded that the United States "stop giving false signals to anti-Chinese radical elements." In turn, the Russian Foreign Ministry promised to establish an exchange of information on facts of interference in the internal affairs of countries. Remember the anti-Russian revolution in Ukraine? Everything is correct. We are allies with China - we must help.
It is already time to clearly say that online anonymity is one of the main tools in the hands of technologists of the notorious “orange revolutions”, understood as an instrument of intervention of some states, most often the West, in the affairs of others. We, Russia, are directly affected. I have not forgotten how the leaders of the liberal opposition fled to the American embassy in Moscow and to receptions at the residence of the ambassador in Spaso-house.
What is this if not an open expression of Washington’s political support to these people and their invitation to action? In the interests of Washington, of course, but not at all the Russian people.
Moreover, those "runners" were only the harbingers of the future. Sim Tack, an analyst with the American company Stratfor, just said in his report at the meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club that the war will be largely waged in cyberspace over time. “Technologies open up new opportunities in terms of the scale and quality of the impact on the minds and hearts of the enemy’s audience and third countries, protecting their own population from“ toxic effects ”... The fundamental goal of propaganda, informational impact as a whole is the same as centuries ago, to kill the idea the adversary without resorting to physical violence, ”the author writes.
And further: “Blitzkrieg will be preceded by lengthy informational training, a cognitive war of meanings, attacks on consciousness with the goal of influencing morale, cohesion, political stability, and reducing the opponent’s will to resist.” Got it, right? The West through its agents of influence intends to suppress our will to resist, and then attack. Does Russia really have no right to block this? “Although it’s harder to defend in information campaigns than to attack,” Sim Tack writes. Deanonymization is one of the forms of protection of the state and people. You will have to answer for what has been said and done. To each.
The extent to which the hysterical liberal opposition intimidated Russian society can be judged by the reaction to the proposal for anonymization. Even such a brutal politician as deputy Andrei Lugovoi is very cautious. He called for a “balance” between the deanonymization of Internet users and the now proposed simplification of the identification of police officers working at rallies. Let me remind you, after the dispersal of the last street rallies, the law on this was introduced to the State Duma by the former Ombudsman, and now Senator Vladimir Lukin. And, most likely, will be accepted.
Caution really does not hurt. But first of all, in the matter of protecting personal data of Russians. Demanding deanonymization from citizens, collecting information about them, the state is simply obligated to ensure its unconditional safety, to guarantee against leakage and from use for unseemly purposes.
As for the fears of deanonymization as such, it is high time they were dropped. It was not appropriate for social activists, especially politicians, to hide behind anonymous nicknames, like representatives of the criminal world. The people will not understand. A word is only truly weighty when it has an author. Just look at what's happening on Telegram. If at first the anonymous Telegram channels were in the top of the popularity, then over time the authorial ones, for example, Solovyova and Simonyan, took the leading positions. So the time has come when it is time for all groups of Russian society to take off their masks and begin to be responsible for the bazaar. I think that the State Duma and Volodin will come out with a consolidated position on this issue.
The author’s point of view may not coincide with the position of the publisher.