There is no question that the laws on the internet have changed quite a bit in the last decade and there are many countries that are adapting those changes to their modern laws and making sure that the internet is regulated properly to avoid any misuse of this technology. The Russians have sent letters to Google, Twitter and Facebook and they have warned them that they could get blocked nationwide if they don’t comply with the regulations that the Russians have requested.
The main concern of the Russian government is that blogging is being use to anonymously allow for people to cause social unrest and to provoke rioting. They demand that blogger information should not be kept secret from governments and this is the main reason why they have said that they will block all of those networks. This brings a series of questions that the old is asking themselves.
Maybe the Russian government wants to let their people know that all blogging activity is now going to be monitored by registration and this way they can keep the bloggers from creating and government posts in their blogs once they realize that they will be monitored closely. Perhaps they want this information in order to see if they have people in their own parties who are working against them anonymously. The thing to keep in mind is that this does make everyone consider the loss pf privacy and the freedom of anonymity online.
The problem is that being anonymous online is a double edge sword that can cause more problems than solutions. A lot of terrible cybercrimes have taken place thanks to the fact that people are being giving the liberty of browsing the internet without identifying themselves. This is the kind of thing that has been debated by millions of people all over the world.
There is also the issue of millions of Russians losing the privilege of conducting business with Google, Facebook and Twitter and this would probably be a terrible decision that would leave a very large number of Russian families without any income at all. This country has a large number of internet users who actually make use of the internet for their full time income and this radical decision by the government could prove to be extremely damaging and it could cause even more unrest.
This decision would very well star a chain of events that could make things a lot more difficult for the Russian government, but they are definitely firm about this decision and only time will tell how this will unfold and how Google, Facebook and Twitter will react to this.
Obviously it will not be any good for any of the parties involved if Russia decides to block those networks completely. This generate a lot of anger both inside that nation and all over the world. The issue here is that there is need for internet regulations, but the freedom of speech that every individual has, is also going to have to be tied to their identity being made public.
This is the kind of situation that can make things move faster when it comes to the laws that will be implemented for all internet visitors. There is a very good chance that every single person who goes online, will have to use a specific ID in order to gain access to the web. This is going to revolutionize the way in which the internet is used and it will also get rid of a lot of the scams that are going on online.
Sharon Callix
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