The FSB Public Council proposes banning Tor and anonymizing sites, bringing their creators to justice.

Today I read on the Russian nationalist site Sputnik and Pogrom news "The FSB wants to ban protection against electronic surveillance ", based on the news published today in Izvestia , the news " The siloviki suggest banning software that hides the user on the Web ." And this news is such that from her hair should stand on end on her head!

The Public Council under the Federal Security Service of Russia (I present its logo on the right) considered it necessary (probably at a meeting on May 29 ) to propose to the State Duma such amendments to the Law “On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection”, which would make all programs masking information data illegal and IP addresses of users. This also applies to the Tor browser, and anonymizing sites that allow using a normal browser to go from a modified IP address to some other site (blocked for “extremism”, for “ suicide propaganda ”, for “ drug propaganda ”, for “pedophilia”) and read this site nevertheless (perhaps secretly sarcastic chuckling at Roskomnadzor - who knows? ...). Now it will be no laughing matter.

Interesting are the replies of individuals given by Izvestia in connection with this initiative.
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Anatoly G. Kucherena (a member of the Public Council under the FSB, who became Putin’s proxy in the 2012 elections) told Izvestia directly that they are preparing recommendations for deputies to introduce responsibility for creating software that allows them to visit banned websites. “Adopt a clear law, which will spell out sanctions that can keep programmers from wanting to create malicious software products,” Kucherin said the intentions of the fighters with network anonymity.

The opinion of Leonid Leonidovich Levin (the first deputy committee of the State Duma on information policy) is that anonymizers are used by people who intend to perform some kind of illegal actions, or by those who have something to hide.

The site “Sputnik and Pogrom” adds that after Tor and anonymizers, the fight against VPN will inevitably begin - and I think this opinion is quite fair, even with an increase: not only VPN, but also SSH, and after them HTTPS, probably SSL in whole

What happens if this struggle with anonymity and secrecy is a complete success?

It seems that the physical destruction of the remnants of network privacy will come - and they will establish such a totalitarianism that Orwell didn’t see: Orwell only has telecranes, and we have computers, computers!

And it is sad to see that the establishment of this totalitarianism is carried out under the slogan of resisting "extremism", "child pornography", "drugs" and "suicide"; I am not in vain taking these terms in quotes, because their use in current law enforcement practice is largely arbitrary. We read about how the site about the game EVE Online (which described the use of fictional chemicals to fictional characters) was closed for “drugs” , and for “suicide” - innocuous humor like an article from Absurdopedia or Kaganov’s works (and in the so-called real world under the pretext of child suicide, the death note manga in the Sverdlovsk region is withdrawn from sale , although the whole region is named after one of the organizers of the Emperor’s children’s murder, but nobody cares about it, for “extremism” - nationally targeted anti-alk home propaganda (№1568 in the Federal List of Extremist Materials ) or calls to the authorities for accountability to voters (№292 ibid.). As for “child pornography” (actually intended for fully adult pedophiles), the need to combat its consumption on the Internet (instead of fighting its production in the real world, inevitably associated with the actual corruption of real children, for whom unlicensed anonymous distributions on the Internet they are a direct economic threat, they are deprived of financing) is not quite obvious - and the question asked about this to the minister turned out to be ignored.

About a month ago (more precisely, on May 6, 2013) in the blog “ Black List 2.0, now with criminal penalties, ” I also argued that the bogey of “suicide” and “child pornography” could (and is starting) to be used to combat the spread of modern Japanese culture, that is, with the proliferation of anime, manga, ranobe and visual novels: in many of these works, it is not difficult to find erotic or tanatical motifs (partly reminiscent of William Shakespeare with his character Juliet, who at the age of thirteen managed and loved s Romeo and be done with them), it is easy to find children in situations of non-children.

Anime fans (up to one-third of Habrahabr participants will be picked up by the poll results ) will be saddened by the news that in just the month that has passed since then, there has been a serious preparation of public opinion on this matter.

Not only in New Zealand (as mentioned on the RT website ), but also in Russia an expert opinion is being prepared on attributing erotic animations to the category of “child pornography”.

A group appeared in the social network "VKontakte", called "Anime vs. Veterans". Members of this group who consider themselves anime lovers (or just playing the role of anime artists) used anime attributes and anime slang for grossly insulting the veterans of World War II and the heroic accomplishments of the Soviet people. Currently, the group is closed by the administration of the site “VKontakte”, however, not earlier than it was noticed on May 9 and caused widespread fair indignation. Ulyana Skoybeda (this is the same journalist who recently became famous thanks to a speech in defense of the Soviet winning army, accompanied by sarcastic attacks on her critics — liberals of Jewish racial origin) could not pass by this group of anime anti-Soviets and branded them in the article “ Pobedy Day and gay orgievskaya ribbon ", laid out on May 9 on the website of Komsomolskaya Pravda."


In my mind, the call “forget the name of the insane Herostratus!” And the term “Streisand effect” at the sight of this struggle, which looks more like PR, albeit black.

It should also be noted that such a group on the VKontakte site is not alone. There is, for example, “ Anime is better than Allah ”, created later on the same principle (unless it is aimed not at veterans, but at Muslims) and also having time to get its share of PR, in particular, at the demotivator .

Watching all this with animosity, it is difficult to get rid of the idea that such social work is carefully coordinated by outsiders - perhaps even by the special services. It reminds, you know, a bearded anecdote that the fight against extremism has reached such a scale that there are several extremist groups that consist entirely of embedded FSB agents. Involuntarily it begins to seem that these two groups on VKontakte consist entirely of FSB agents (of the so-called “agents of influence”, at least), and the whole purpose of their existence is only to be able to the moment to present them to society as an excuse to point at animeshnikov, exclaim “atu!”, start persecution. And under the guise of doing away with anonymity on the Internet.

Well, in conclusion - for unloading the mind - scattered fragments of poetry and manga, in a vivid, figurative form, reinforcing the idea of ​​the text you read. To memorize memetic.

I swear I'll be cleaner and kinder
And in trouble I will never leave a friend.
I do not want a regime like in North Korea -
Let them come to their senses, not the whole ███!

Beautiful Madoka, do not be cruel to me ...