Our private business

This whole story with Rain remarkably illustrates another thing. The behavior of our private business. Here are all these cable operators and Internet providers, who together rushed to turn off the channel from their networks.

This is generally a great idea. The prosecutor’s office conducts an audit, but does not find anything special. Roskomnadzor is studying - but finds reason only to scold. The head of state is silent, the press secretary grumble, the deputies drive a wave, but they drive the wave every day, and few accepts Gonba seriously. That is, the state and power, as it were, have nothing to do with it. They are unhappy, but not to the extent to resort to repressions. Or even start a “dispute between business entities”. The authorities will make all the dirty work with the wrong hands. Moreover, by the hands of independent, private.

With the hands of those very distributors of content that at first this content was happy to distribute, and then stopped distributing. They just "arranged it." Or in them, sending the subscribers the Russian Night or Hustler channel, something highly molegun woke up. Probably, someone was directly “hinted” that it would be necessary to de-energize the “rain”. And this script miraculously illustrates how our business has learned Putin's rules. Do not go into politics, do not interfere with the authorities, do what they order - and then row your millions with a shovel. Certainly! When, in addition to the mentioned erotic channels, you can supply the people with dozens of other channels with chewing gum for the eyes and brains-why rest because of some kind of “rain”? We are not losing anything, but living is so much calmer. The readiness of businessmen is implicitly to fulfill not even an order, but a recommendation is a great achievement of the board of Vladimir Vladimirovich.

But I'm sure that not everyone was given recommendations. Perhaps only the largest firms, like Gazprom NTV+. But then what worked in the 30-50s, when everything was signed by letters, stigmatized with shame, demanded to shoot like rabid dogs, or condemned, although they did not look and did not read. People are ahead of the bossy whim, strive to please in advance, mix with a loyal crowd and, lifting his pants, run after the Komsomol.

We are saying that the state strangles the country and its economy, that we need a private initiative, that the private owner is more independent, more sane, is guided not by ideological Beliberda, but by the interests of the matter. So what do we see? We see a friendly ecstasy of this private business, ready to go against our own benefits, and against reputation, and against customers - but to please the authorities. However, such a business will probably say that it saves itself just in its interests, in the interests of most customers and that its reputation will only strengthen in the eyes of this majority.

We see all this and we understand that in the country there is not only a full -fledged civil society, but also a normal private business. All this cannot but rejoice us and makes us look optimistic into the future.