The Belarusian Orthodox Church believes that access to Internet resources should be regulated by law

The Belarusian Orthodox Church (BPC) initiates the introduction of legal regulation of access to Internet resources. “In connection with the exceptional importance of this problem, we urge to introduce effective regulation of the Internet-nervous at the legislative level,” said the Patriarchal Exarch of all Belarus, Metropolitan Filaret at the meeting of the President of the country Alexander Lukashenko with members of the BPC Synod, ITAR-TASS reports.

At the same time, the metropolitan referred to the experience of China. "Chinese experience is interesting in that the responsibility for using the Internet is not assigned to the state, but lies with those who provide access to the network," he said.

According to him, "the Internet, which is an open door to the world, has a powerful influence on the consciousness of people." “The main threat is that all kinds of immoral information has become available to the most vulnerable segments of the population - children and adolescents who have not yet formed, unstable psyche, and they do not have self -control.

“Therefore, virtual chaos for them is most destructive,” said the head of the BPC. At the same time, he expressed the hope that the state would not leave this problem without attention.

Recall that a month ago, the official representative of the Moscow Patriarchate, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, expressed concern that virtual reality weanes a person to think independently.

According to him, "it is necessary for virtual reality to break its trend that weanes people to think on their own." “Access to information has become very easy for a student, schoolboy, researcher,” said the deputy head of the department of external church ties of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPC MP).

According to the priest, today it is very easy to “find everything you need, and often find ready -made schemes for a student, research work, management solution, for certain intellectual calculations related to public speeches.”

"How to find in the world of digital reality ways to not find out to think, to educate a person’s ability to independently think is a question for the future. I do not know the answer, but if we do not solve it, we will find a rapid and very dangerous development of anti -intellectualism among the society around us, the habit of not thinking and not to do anything ourselves, which will lead to a crisis of manageriality of society," the Vsevolod believes, the Vsevolod believes Chaplin.