Timur Aitov, who woke up famous after his
report at RIFF-2006, continues to oppose the state of affairs in the Runet. His disapproval is still caused by the influence of the “three buttons” -
Yandex ,
Rambler and
Mail.Ru.Aitov, who expressed his views this time in Izvestia, again calls for the creation of a public Russian portal (PIU - abbreviation of Aitov). Along the way, the author of the "concept" promotes the idea that Internet communications should not be controlled by private companies, since it is not known how they "manage the most important resources and use valuable information."
In general, everything is bad. The picture of sin, Timur Aitov, in the article
“Does Russia Need a Public Portal?” Paints not carefully, but effectively: in his opinion, leading Internet companies are tinkering with search queries and extracting corporate secrets from mail traffic. This activity is presented as a “three buttons” business scheme. However, no actual evidence was provided for the use of such schemes. The merits of the “buttons” in terms of technological development and popularization of the Internet in the country were not mentioned either.
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The text of Aitov almost completely duplicates the theses of his RIF report. But in the final part of the note, some specifics were introduced, explaining the author’s central case - the creation of the ODP. In particular, one sentence gives the thought:
“The structure of the Russian portal should provide all necessary services to users of the Runet - on file storage, correspondence, entertainment, communication, etc.” . The following four points explain how you can add to the "traditional list of Internet services."
Recall, the report on the RIF Aitov did as a delegate to
RBC Soft . The change is interesting: in the article in “Izvestia” he appears already as “a member of the board of the
Regional Public Center for Internet Technologies (ROCIT) ”. Obviously, the reaction of
RBC in the person of Mikhail Gurevich to the report “The Three Buttons of the Runet” was extremely sincere. “The report is a private opinion of Timur Aitov and absolutely does not reflect the position of the RBC management,” said Mikhail Gurevich in
an interview with Vebplanet. “I want to add on my own that I haven’t seen such an illiterate set of numbers and judgments for a long time.”
Speaking of the “unscrupulous” Russian Internet companies, the
message that flashed in Clerk.Ru will be worth mentioning: at an Internet forum recently held in Krasnodar, Alexander Aygistov, director of the Russian Association of Electronic Communications, said that Yandex some spy lists. “Everything that passes through Yandex, probably, is watched by the British special services,” were his words.
“The patient continues to rave,” comments the editor-in-chief of Yandex Elena Kolmanovskaya. “It’s even hard to believe that the Aigistes and Aitov are different people.”