The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation proposes to introduce "control of materials" in the global Internet

Russian officials again drew attention to the World Wide Web. As always, this attention does not bode well for the Internet. For some strange reason, statesmen see an extremely negative phenomenon on the Internet. None of them has yet spoken about how Russia should review its economy and foreign policy in the era of global communications, what new opportunities are opening up in connection with this (they haven’t even begun to think about it yet). But officials readily invent new evils and misfortunes that come from the Internet, and how to deal with them.

The next threatening statement was made by the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation. Speaking on Monday at a meeting of the Council of the Federation Committee on Legal and Judicial Issues, Mr. Ivan Sydoruk drew attention to the fact that recently extremist materials have become widespread in the media and the Internet. “When a full description of the manufacture of an explosive or an indication of how to organize a terrorist attack is given on the Internet, something must be done here, ” he said . According to Sydoruk, you need to develop a system of control over the materials appearing on the Internet, including on foreign sites. Naturally, Sydoruk doesn’t even know about how to exercise such control.

In general, the direction of thought among officials remains the same. Probably, it will take many more years until they get used to the fact that information on the Internet cannot be controlled, especially on a global scale. But how many stupid things can they do over the years?