Nastic Gryzunova. Seine: issue 84

I am probably in the minority - however, the lack of television did not affect me personally in any way. True, in my case this can be explained simply - I don’t have a TV. However, the population of the hero city seems to be suffering greatly. In this regard, the Internet has come to the aid of people within the framework of several projects at once. In fact, if people have news withdrawal, it’s not good to make them suffer.

On August 28 - somewhat earlier than planned - the website NTV.ru, a joint project of the Memonet company and the NTV television company, opened. The stated goal of the project is to compensate for the lack of television broadcasting in Moscow and the Moscow region. It’s stupid to talk about the quality of materials on the site - NTV is the most adequate television company of all existing ones; As for the site itself, the picture on the TV loads MUCH faster.

RosNIIROS together with the Telecom-Center company also joined the initiative to treat TV drug addicts. The Telecom-Center company organized a live Internet broadcast of the ORT, RTR, TVC, NTV and Kultura TV channels at the address on the MBone.Ru server. RosNIIROS supports this project, as it is the coordinator of the Moscow traffic exchange point Multicast-IX, and multicast is considered the optimal technology for transmitting video and audio information on the Network. Since all this happens under force majeure circumstances, providers are connected to Multicast-IX for free.

In addition, Rambler joined this universal love for television, announcing that in the “News” section on its server the “RTR-Vesti” section has been opened, where all the stories of the “Vesti” information and analytical program will be broadcast.

For a more or less public figure, it is important to have at least one non-standard idea by which he (the figure) will be identified. The more crazy the idea, the better - the more firmly it is remembered. In this regard, Robert Caillot, a CERN employee, one of the authors of the World Wide Web project (not the first, entirely written by Tim Berners-Lee, but the second, corrected), simply breaks all records. In interviews regularly published in various publications, this worthy gentleman repeats the same thing: access to the Internet is not a right, but a privilege, and only a select few who have passed exams and received access rights can use it. Like motorists. Instead of regulating content, Kayo proposes regulating user behavior - preliminary and after violations (if you send spam, you lose your rights).

It would seem that this is it, the abolition of the state on the Internet and, accordingly, censorship. But in fact, this idea is much more stringent than, say, a ban on the content of certain types of resources. It is obvious that traditional censorship will also be carried out through the mechanism of such regulation - it is easy to blackmail with deprivation of rights. In addition, the very idea of ​​filtering the community at the level of user brains, and not the products of their network activities, abolishes the illusion of freedom on the Internet forever. Because what we consider the environment turns out to be just some kind of closed club. Only here there were not enough seals and signatures in the documents giving the right to life. Fortunately, however, there is not the slightest hint of even an attempt to implement Kayo’s plans.

Poor inventors. This banal tragedy is repeated over and over again: having already created and released an invention, you want to continue making adjustments. And it is already in free flight.