The state is we

What to do when they came for nginx

The Runet Prize in the nomination "State and Society" in 2019 was received by the General Prosecutor's Office. The laureate was in a good company near the portal of the Federal Tax Service, the official website of the Moscow Mayor Mos.ru and the website for promoting national projects. Colleagues who track the development of the IT industry in Russia are ironic that everything is harmonious: what runet, such bonuses. In the “era of sovereign Runet”, security officials become the main participants in innovative development.

The state for a long time considered an IT industry alien to a territory for itself, did not know how to approach it. In general, it was assumed that IT is engaged in anemic "botanists", while serious gentlemen share oil, gas and non -ferrous metals. “Nerdams” (“Nerdam”, if in a west) decades did not interfere with digging in their computers, and as a result they made telecom-revolution in Russia and created some of the most successful Internet companies in the world. By analogy, one can imagine what the country would be, if other spheres of life would not include “power entrepreneurs” of various kinds.

Now, respected people have come to insight: “botanists” can be robbed, and the bill will go to hundreds of millions of dollars.

An egregious example of such farming is an attack on Nginx developers, one of the most successful digital platforms made in Russia. Ordinary Internet users about the existence of this web server may not know, but in fact, the network “spins” in many ways on it. On the other hand, under the attack for many months has been Yandex, which state -owned companies make persistent offers to share stocks. The professional environment is filled with jokes: they built Edigile, it turned out to be squeezed.

Grigory Bazhenov talks about what this situation means for the Russian economy, and I want to look at things from another prospect. Formally, in Russia there are a number of characters and structures that should protect business on behalf of the state:

• This is the business ombudsman Boris Titov,

• Internet Ombudsman Dmitry Marinichev,

• As well as the holder of the latest Ombudsman for the protection of IT companies Natalya Popova.

All these wonderful people now do not comment on the situation with Nginx: probably, they still did not quite understand what the party’s general line on this issue. But Nginx was publicly supported by private companies and Associations of software developers, in particular Yandex, Mail.ru, Qiwi.

And this can hardly be called an accidental episode. All the good that is in Russia-from high-tech IT companies to charity-was done not thanks, but contrary to the state. The main efforts of those who do not want to expect mercy from the government are aimed at simply preventing the authorities to interfere with our work.

Country is the worst thing that can happen to you, even if you were loyal, and everything at first went love.

The political conclusions from these processes are as follows. The state does not fulfill its functions: for example, does not protect the equality of citizens and companies before the laws. The services of the state for conducting ships and searches are traded in the open market - you only need to know the right people who can be "ordered". It is not possible to live without a state at the same time. And then its functions are taken by citizens.

These are citizens, and not the state achieve fair sentences in the courts, at least conditional terms, in today's times - excuses. Citizens, not the state, are ensuring that seriously ill patients receive the drugs they need. Citizens protect honest elections on the streets. Citizens demand to leave honest businessmen into rest or create modern educational projects. Once we will understand that we are the state.