Two values

The situation with Telegram and Roskomnadzor is not simple, but very simple. Alexey Mazur comments on the threats to block the messenger Pavel Durov.

Alexey Mazur

Each person (including you will be surprised - a citizen of Russia) hasthe right to private life and the secret of correspondence. This right is recorded in the Constitution of the Russian Federation, though with one reservation - that the right to the secret of correspondence can be limited only by court decision. In order not to be unfounded, I will give the article completely:

Article 23 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation

1. Everyone has the right to inviolability of private life, personal and family secrets, protection of their honor and a good name.

2. Everyone has the right to the secret of correspondence, telephone negotiations, postal, telegraph and other messages. The restriction of this right is allowed only on the basis of a court decision.

A reservation about the “court decision” is the loophole that allows special services to climb into the phone, mailbox and even in bed to each citizen, despite the degree of his criminality. Actually, the “Yarovaya Law” speaks quite clearly - the state wants to know our every step, sneezing and preferably thoughts. And since our state does not have the opportunity to know this unanimously, they want to have a way to return to the issue at any moment and to seize what this or that citizen wrote or said.

Everything is explained, of course, by concern for our safety.

That is, we see that two values ​​- the safety and inviolability of private life - come into conflict with each other. The problem is that citizens themselves should resolve this conflict, and not at all Roskomnadzor. We must decide what is worse for us - the risk of terrorists or reading our correspondence.

You need to understand that the “terrorists usedTelegram ” can be very far away. The terrorists used the attack of the St. Petersburg metro. Let's close it too. The terrorists discussed their plans in the cafe - let's close all the cafes. The terrorists talked on the phone - and so on. We can easily find out that for a complete victory over terrorism (if you go through prohibitions), it will take a ban on people to communicate with each other.

I want to remind the experience of tsarist Russia. In 1905-1907, 4 thousand officials became victims of political terror. The terrorists killed the uncle of the tsar, the Governor of Moscow, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, killed Dmitry Sipyagin and Vyacheslav Plepe ministers, blew up the cottage of Prime Minister Peter Stolypin, and then he himself was shot at the Kiev Theater.

The terrorists then had neither the Internet, nor cell phones, nor, moreover, the Telegram messenger. But there were social reasons and archaic, repressive and not wanting to change the state system. Familiar, is it true?