What society wants: the desire of Russians to control the Internet
A short note has already been published on GT referring to the results of the VTsIOM survey regarding their attitude to the freedom of the Internet. The results are depressing: 49% of Russians believe that information on the Internet should be censored, 58% support a complete Internet shutdown in the country in the event of a national threat or the possibility of mass protests, and 73% believe that it’s not necessary to publish negative information about civil servants on the network. % stated their negative attitude to calls to protest against the government. A significant proportion (42%) of Russians believe that foreign countries use the Internet to the detriment of Russia and its interests.
This VTsIOM survey requires several comments so that its accuracy is clear.
Firstly, the English version of the report “What the society wants: the desire of Russians to control the Internet” was released in February . She was then discussed , for example, on the website of Roskomsvoboda. The report was written by Eric Nisbet, Ph.D. from Cornell University, professor of communications, political science and environmental policy at Ohio State University. He is also a staff member of the Meshon Center for International Security Studies.
VTsIOM has kindly provided Nisbet with survey data before they are publicly available.
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Secondly, the Russian-language version of the report was published today. Apparently, it became the reason for the publication of the TASS note , which was reprinted by almost all the major media.
Roskomsvoboda considers this a deliberate “informational stuffing”, which for some reason is made right now. But if you look at things realistically, it is quite possible that the VTsIOM staff really prepared the translation of a 28-page five months for some reason.
Anyway, here are the basic facts from this study.
Approximately half of Russians (51%) believe that the main reason for the government adopting legislation on the black list of sites is the desire to maintain political stability, while 13% of respondents believe that the authorities' desire to restrict democratic freedoms is the main motivation for this policy.
Many Russians (39%) are confident that personal blogs should be regulated in the same way as the media.
Approximately half of the respondents (53%) believe that the Internet has a positive impact on society, while about a third (31%) believe that this effect is negative. The ratio varies greatly depending on the frequency of using the Internet. The majority of regular users (71%) and using from time to time (61%) consider the influence of the Internet to be positive, and not using the Internet call it negative (55%).
In this study, 38% of Russians surveyed do not use the Internet, 20% use the Network from time to time, and 42% use the Internet daily.
In relation to Internet censorship, the opinion of these groups is also very different: among regular users, 43% support censorship, and among those who do not use the Internet - 57%.
The most popular categories of content for censorship are copyrighted materials (59%), foreign news sites (45%) and other foreign websites (38%).
In general, everyone can judge the accuracy of such figures. VTsIOM declares an error limit of ± 3.1% and ± 4.0% for 99% of users and 95% of non-users of the Internet, respectively.
This VTsIOM survey requires several comments so that its accuracy is clear.
Firstly, the English version of the report “What the society wants: the desire of Russians to control the Internet” was released in February . She was then discussed , for example, on the website of Roskomsvoboda. The report was written by Eric Nisbet, Ph.D. from Cornell University, professor of communications, political science and environmental policy at Ohio State University. He is also a staff member of the Meshon Center for International Security Studies.
VTsIOM has kindly provided Nisbet with survey data before they are publicly available.
')
Secondly, the Russian-language version of the report was published today. Apparently, it became the reason for the publication of the TASS note , which was reprinted by almost all the major media.
Roskomsvoboda considers this a deliberate “informational stuffing”, which for some reason is made right now. But if you look at things realistically, it is quite possible that the VTsIOM staff really prepared the translation of a 28-page five months for some reason.
Anyway, here are the basic facts from this study.
Approximately half of Russians (51%) believe that the main reason for the government adopting legislation on the black list of sites is the desire to maintain political stability, while 13% of respondents believe that the authorities' desire to restrict democratic freedoms is the main motivation for this policy.
Many Russians (39%) are confident that personal blogs should be regulated in the same way as the media.
Approximately half of the respondents (53%) believe that the Internet has a positive impact on society, while about a third (31%) believe that this effect is negative. The ratio varies greatly depending on the frequency of using the Internet. The majority of regular users (71%) and using from time to time (61%) consider the influence of the Internet to be positive, and not using the Internet call it negative (55%).
In this study, 38% of Russians surveyed do not use the Internet, 20% use the Network from time to time, and 42% use the Internet daily.
In relation to Internet censorship, the opinion of these groups is also very different: among regular users, 43% support censorship, and among those who do not use the Internet - 57%.
The most popular categories of content for censorship are copyrighted materials (59%), foreign news sites (45%) and other foreign websites (38%).
In general, everyone can judge the accuracy of such figures. VTsIOM declares an error limit of ± 3.1% and ± 4.0% for 99% of users and 95% of non-users of the Internet, respectively.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/367845/
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