Age censor

The publication of Roskomnadzor " The Concept of Information Security of Children " caused an explosion of violent indignation of Facebook-publicity and sarcastic comments of venerable bloggers. The conclusion is unequivocal: this is a new attack of obscurantists and obscurants, this time directed against the masterpieces of world art, in which an erotic element is one way or another. No one has a shadow of doubt that the publication is not intended for any public discussion, that everything has already been signed by the highest authority - and with shoulders down.

I suspect that the commentators thumped into the bells without looking at the holy, did not give themselves the work to read the entire package of expert conclusions and research. Most likely, RIA Novosti, which says: it says :

The regulation of the protection of children from an erotic and pornographic information should be extended to information products that has significant historical, artistic or other cultural value for society.

Of course, now they will put on panties on David, and a swimsuit on Danai.

I read this bag all day and defeated only in the evening. In fact, erotica there is far from the main thing. It is proposed to protect the child from all kinds of destructive and depressed spectacles, inspiring a sense of fear and defenselessness before the hostile world, imposing models of asocial behavior, a cult of power, cynicism and so on.

Much of the reasoning of the scholars and ladies seemed hopelessly outdated - they talk about the children, as they were twenty years ago. Much sounds anecdotal - to take at least the statement that "irreversible harm to the health and mental development of children" is caused by some toys: "dolls with signs of drug intoxication, which are awesome monsters," corpses "of coffins that can cause fear, panic, pathological necro -genophile interest in children." That is, a child with a doll in a coffin will play - and will run into the morgue to real corpses ...

Some proposals for the regulation of "dangerous" content are perplexed. For example, it is proposed to supplement the law on information security of children with restrictions on the participation of a child as an executor in spectacular events of the category "from 18 years old". I’m afraid that with this approach it will be impossible to stand many plays of the global repertoire. Say, in the "Medaa" Sophocles, the children of the main character constantly appear on the stage and, although she kills them behind the stage, appears in the final sitting on Helios chariot, drawn by winged dragons, with sons of knees.

It is clear that the ban on showing in the daytime (from 4 in the morning to 11 pm) information messages about accidents, accidents and disasters that “cause fear, horror or panic” in children, means that adults will not see these messages, which means that they will be in blissful ignorance regarding the situation in the power. It is also obvious that the ban on showing the same time period of advertising with "sexual subtext" will become a powerful tool for the redistribution of the advertising market.

At the same time, as a parent, it was interesting for me to read the results of the examination of Russian schoolchildren for their book and television tastes, sections on the interaction of children with the Internet, in particular, cyberbulling. This is a really serious problem , but it is not related to "information security".

It never occurred to me to protect my children from erotica - when to be interested in eroticism, if not in childhood? He himself read under the desk of Maupassant and shameful stories in an excited notebook. But from the popes in all its manifestations, from the cheap crafts of the mass -country - I would have fenced. But this is not a subject of legislative prohibition. Links to the experience of the United States, where district school councils are seized from school libraries, Mark Twain, then Ray Bradbury, cannot withstand critics - these are arbitrariness of the local school authorities, with whom Americans are fighting the whole world.

Naive people are these prohibitions: as if children without books will not learn about the existence of drugs and their own pisika! A good taste and positive attitude to life are brought up in the family, and not prescribed by the state. I liked the opinion expressed in the discussion about children's reading and given in the materials attached to the concept: "There are no books that read early, with the exception of those that do not have to read at all."

The so -called pedagogical censorship - control of the works that have passed censorship, but which is undesirable in certain social layers - was not born in Russia today. She appeared in the reign of Alexander II, who canceled preliminary censorship. In 1869, in pursuance of the highest command "On the consideration of textbooks and books for children and the people", under the Scientific Committee of the Ministry of Education, a special department was established that was engaged in the formation of library funds of educational institutions and folk readers. If the Main Directorate for Press Calies made up the lists of prohibited books, then a special department - on the contrary, were permitted. The spiritual needs of children and the people ”,“ image of suffering ”,“ despondency ”,“ lack of positive principles ”. These criteria corresponded to no more than 2-3 percent of all printed products.

Here is a characteristic example of the activity of a special department - the minutes of the meeting of December 13, 1902. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the death of Nekrasov, a society to promote public education and disseminate the useful knowledge of the Yaroslavl province made a motion "to admit public folk readings and free reads of some works" his famous countryman. A report on this issue was made by a member of the scientific council, a famous poet, hofmeister Konstantin Sluchevsky. He immediately admitted that the request shook him into bewilderment. His main argument is paradoxical:

Having familiarized myself, with the works of Nekrasov, I came to the conclusion that any answer to the petition was impossible before the final clarification of the general question about the ugrasov ... for the embroidery of Nekrasov drawings was serfdom and those sad administrative regulations that took place everywhere half a century ago and were expressed in the dashed of the whole public. Building with its landowner basis. To suffer for the suffering was a holy duty for a good person, and Nekrasov suffered and expressed it in his works. The landowners disappeared, there are no more uprises, but all sorts of fists, fraudulent philanthropists, capitalists and manufacturers, destroyers of morality, and hooligans have been preserved and acted. And Nekrasov’s poems in this regard are still tangled by open public ulcers. Only some sides of his verses are dead, but others are completely alive. Nekrasov is not outdated, and that’s why he must be treated with the greatest caution to his school, reader and public readings.

Why is it not the predecessor to eat with his doubts about the values ​​of Nekrasov's works?

The special department decided to establish a special commission to “clarify the general issue of Nekrasov”, led by Sluchevsky, but no traces of its activities in the archive of the scientist of the committee were found.

The system of prevention was valid until the manifesto on October 17, 1905, and in 1917 the Bolsheviks came and made their pedagogy for children and people. The main figure in this matter was Nadezhda Krupskaya, who did not have their own children, but considered himself an authoritative expert on their education. Did she become a role model for MP Mizulina? Krupskaya headed the Glavpolit Lesvet and at this post was zealously engaged in the "cleaning" of libraries from harmful literature. This is how she herself formulated the task of her cleaning subdivision:

*Knowledge of literacy can be compared with a spoon. It is convenient to soup soup with a spoon, but if there is no haze, then, perhaps, there is nothing to get and with a spoon.

The library’s business is to supply a bowl with cabbage soup - a treasury of knowledge - to the owners of spoons, people who own the technique of reading.

However, this is only part of the task in the field of library business. Shcham - discord. It is necessary to cook them not from hay and trumphy, but from sufficiently nutrients, it is necessary to make a brew to be bounced, tasty.*

As a result of the struggle for the chosenability, the book fund of libraries decreased half. During one of the purification, it was ordered to simply remove all the books printed according to the rules of the old spelling. Krupskaya was especially rampant in children's libraries. Even Aksakova’s “Scarlet Flower” was torn out with the root-what can we say about Lydia Char or Little Lord Fauntleroe, which was somewhat miraculously preserved in my family in a pre-revolutionary publication and delighted minutes.

But the most sad thing in all this is the zeal of the librarians themselves, who rightly believed that it was better to overdoing than to unlearn. From the complete ruin of the library was saved by the Directive of the People's Commissar of Education Bubnov, published in 1932, in which he condemned the "excesses on the ground." However, the researchers believe that the fight against library excesses was as mocking as Stalin's discontent with excesses of dispossession.

After all, even now it will turn out exactly the same thing: make the fool pray to God - he will break his forehead.