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Drowned
In society
Drowned
November 9, 2009 Oleg Kozyrev
On the eve of the show on the TV “Taras Bulba”, Yandex announced the decision to confuse its son, which was generated by - top blog entries, the rating of the most popular records in the Russian -speaking blogosphere. The official reason can be reduced to one line from the parent’s explanation: “We saw that the service that was originally created as a mirror, the reflection of the blogosphere became an amplifier, a media instrument.” In other words, they will get rid of the top of blogs because it has become too popular. The date of execution is scheduled for December.Top blog entries (and still remains) objective tools, deprived of any censorship. The ranking honestly reflected precisely those records that most often commented, read, which most often referred to. Advertising records, provocative records, political records, personal records - everything was peacefully adjacent here, reflecting the real picture of what was happening on social networks. And the stronger the Internet would have penetrated into the life of the country, the brighter the top blogs would show what excites citizens, the country the country breathes.
Bloggers take the latest opportunity to “bring it to the TOP”. Now the story of the widow of the liquidator of the accident in Chernobyl is trying to get there, her children are seriously ill, but they are not given disability; the history of the cutting of the reserved forest by military intelligence; The story of the beating of the human rights activist by the UBEP officer of St. Petersburg, accompanied by a video recording of the beating (the case, as you understand, was brought to the one who was beaten, and not on the one who beaten).
Why did the top acquired such a role? Yes, because citizens took away all other possibilities of communication with the authorities. There are no free elections, the media were seriously deformed, leaving small islands of freedom, it is impossible to create a political party. And now the blogs became the window that citizens are trying to shout at least somehow.
- Hello, power, there, there, the child needs to collect money for treatment! - Hello, power, why are you moving railway bridge? - Hello, power, pensioners, why do you plan to disperse water interpreters?
A senior blogger Dmitry Medvedev himself has repeatedly admitted that he reads blogs, and it was popular notes. The famous letter of the blogger Kalashnikov got to the Kremlin through the top. And for the chance to be saved, so as not to be condemned, so as not to be killed - people fought for this top.
The decision to close the top of the blogs, I have no doubt, is political. Moreover, it is not necessarily according to the call from above (although there were such calls), but simply because it is dangerous in Russia is dangerous for business. Closing the TOP Yandex is about the same as if Kaspersky closed its
Antivirus because he treats too well, and “good night” would be closed because the transfer is too much like for the transfer.
Bloggers, of course, are the very modernization class, which has been talking about so much recently. Social ties are a powerful resource for the development of society. Only now, if one of the leaders of the Internet industry closes the service because it has become too influential, can we say that the modernization class is so necessary?
Bloggers became the fifth power, especially active due to the fact that all other authorities are seriously amazed. Is it possible today in Russia to sound someone’s voice, except for the mournful singing from the Kremlin (by notes of the White House)? Is it possible that there are any other strength, except for those indicated in the minks of Surkov?
And yet do not lose heart. Communications between bloggers will never be interrupted. All the same can be transmitted to each other important and help those who need help. It just will not happen so publicly. If the authorities tried to pour eyes to society, then this time she blinded only
myself.
Even if we completely cut down the Internet, we can always meet on the street. So the possibilities to convey to the authorities what excites us is still.
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