Head of the Bureau of Special Technical Events of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia proposed to cancel the anonymity on the Internet

The head of the Bureau of Special Technical Events of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (which includes, for example, the “K” Directorate) - Police Major General Alexei Moshkov - gave an interview to Rossiyskaya Gazeta and read this opinion: participants in various forums, conversations and social networking discussions and chat rooms should refuse anonymity and not hide behind nicknames. Often, it is because of unidentiality that there is a feeling of impunity, and with it - the temptation to offend someone, harm someone , or even commit a crime.

As usual, Moshkov mentioned extremism, minors' prostitution, Manezhnaya Square, events in England, DDoS attacks, trafficking in stolen bank details, fraud, blackmail, extortion, and child pornography.

Well, here he is not the first but not the last.
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But my keen interest was the following Moshkov's phrase:

- If you are an honest, law-abiding person, why hide? Let me remind you that there is no censorship on the Internet, and for criticizing the management of “K”, no one will be searched for and arrested.

(End of quote.)

After reading this phrase, I barely kept myself from a prolonged hysterical giggle. Whether this Major General does not know how easily and naturally these days disappear, when necessary, any distinction between persecution for criticism and arrest under Article 282 for inciting hatred and hostility to a social group. Get at least the police themselves, the former police. For example, in 2010 in Ryazan against journalists of the newspaper "Evening Ryazan", who wrote a critical article about the work of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, wasn’t a criminal case initiated for "inciting hatred towards the police officers"? And before that, it was still a matter of the blogger Savva Terentyev ...