"O field, field, who covered you with dead bones?"
- exclaims the knight in Ruslana and Lyudmila.
The question, in general, is not very pertinent.
You are and are dotted.
Russian soldiers fighting hordes of Basurman.
Everything is clear and obvious.
Here they are, here we are.
Someone attacks, someone defends.
Beat the enemy, save the Fatherland!
Another thing is the modern virtual battlefield.
Internet space.
Serious wars are being played out here today.
And where, who, from where, for what purpose bursts into someone else's territory - go and figure it out!
Hacker attacks, break-ins, viruses, information leakage, emptying bank accounts, impact on a particular resource - this is a separate song for professionals.
But there is another everyday reality in which today we are participating almost without exception.
Social networks.
Couch troops can be scary and unpredictable.
You can direct them in one direction or another with one ill-considered phrase, an inadvertently laid out video, an insidious fake.
However, the invisible foreign commanders of these battles are even more dangerous.
Who, for some reason, have taken upon themselves the right to decide who can spread anything, and who should shut up.
On Facebook
Zuckerberg is to blame.
It is on his head that every banned person sends all the curses and malicious comments.
Of course, the "sweep" of the ranks of Facebook is the work of the collective Zuckerberg, his large team.
But how does all this happen?
What are the laws and regulations?
By whose hands?
God knows!
Blocking mechanisms on YouTube are also unknown.
His office in Moscow, according to the same Google, is located at st.
Balchug, 7. A few reviews of the office's work posted on its website, for example, are as follows: “I am not involved in politics!
I had my own channel.
I just posted my trainings there.
I did not violate anything, I did not receive any notifications-warnings!
And they blocked me?
Why???
For what??!".
Or even cooler: What are you disgusting and two-faced !!!
I wish that everyone who works on YouTube video hosting and has Russian citizenship was deprived of the latter, like traitors, and personally I wish you to always sleep with cancer, your coffee always gave off smelly socks, and your children hated you and only spat contemptuously in your direction !!! "
But the saddest thing is different.
It is impossible to get through to the "representative office".
The announced phone is permanently “temporarily unavailable”.
The Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, having sent a request to David Sneddon, who, being the head of Google Technical Solutions in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa), took over as director of the Russian office of the company, received the following answer: "Google LLC is not a representative office of Google LLC in Russia, and the company itself has no branches or representative offices in the country."
As the HRC website reported in 2020, the head of the organization, Valery Fadeev, commented on this: “We are faced with a very strange situation when on the the specified address, we are told that google.ru is not related to an American company.
We know that this office conducts Google cases, communicates widely with experts and lawyers, but refused to contact human rights defenders.
It is a pity that in the direction of protecting the rights of the Russian media from unmotivated blocking, you have to go in such a tricky way and, if you have an office in Russia, write to America. "
The list of Russian content blocked on YouTube lately will not fit even in several columns.
In the first place, of course, are the accounts associated with Crimea and Donbass.
All this "selective" moderation is clearly political censorship and is dictated by the US political agenda.
What to do?
Different options are being discussed.
The cardinal path is the counter-blocking of the resources themselves, leading such an unceremonious censorship, entirely.
An important reservation is made, for example, by the chairman of the State Duma committee on information policy, information technology and communications, Alexander Khinshtein.
He states that in this case it is necessary to have Russian analogues of foreign social networks, as well as video hosting YouTube.
A feasible task, but not solvable from a raid.
The political path is a series of negotiations.
At different levels.
With the involvement of decision-makers, representatives of the media business, the public, specialists.
Among the priority tasks:
1) the opening of official representative offices of foreign social networks on the territory of Russia, authorized to be in contact with the authorities and relevant organizations and correcting the content in accordance with the legislation in force in our country;
2) establishment of transparent rules and evaluation criteria explaining the reasons for this or that blocking;
3) the creation of a permanent joint international platform where the existing problems are openly and constructively discussed.
There is one more way.
But he is, rather, from the realm of fantasy.
When the Greatest Masters of oriental martial arts go to the fight, they stand opposite each other for a while in silence, then they also silently bow and disperse.
They are already so experienced that they calculated all their actions ahead of time and came to a general agreement.
There is no need to fight.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.