The day before, April 16, at a meeting in the Kyrgyz parliament, head of the intelligence Shamil Atakhanov publicly announced that he intends to censor the Internet, in particular, to monitor the content of Kyrgyz sites. According to the chairman of the State National Security Committee of KR, his agency has already signed several contracts with firms that specialize in search engine software. Within 3-4 months Kirnete, in fact, will be introduced direct censorship.
In the future cooperation with the National Security Committee programmers allow security officers to track information content of any website. The committee will pay special attention to local news agencies, which, according to their data, periodically publishes articles on banned topics, be it nationalism, ethnic and religious conflicts, and more.However Atakhanov forgot to mention one more component - the local newspapers, which by their content, often times "pereplevyvayut" ordinary Kyrgyz journalists, including Russian, but for the chauvinistic remarks were not something that is not punished, and vice versa - is praised and popularized.
The initiative has been controversial in the community, but journalists have embraced information Atakhanova more negative than with approval. This is due, primarily, in violation of the principles of freedom of speech and the lack of legislative framework in Kyrgyzstan for censoring the Internet space.
- This is a private affair of the State Committee of National Security - said political analyst, journalist and senior fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Alexander Knyazev. - It is strictly de jure, it will mean less media censorship as illegitimate, unconstitutional invasion of privacy of citizens. At the same, "Facebook", in other social networks because I can, and personal conversation with someone, right?! That is, the total surveillance of citizens, their contacts, communication both within the country and, given the possibility of the Internet outside the country. Anyone has the right to sue, because it violated individual rights.
Somewhat similar views expressed Portal News - Asia and the General Director of "Channel Five" Eugene Berdnikov.
- I can not say that I completely "over", - said the journalist. - But if the National Security Committee will publish and agree with the public the criteria that the content is correct and what is not, and will strictly adhere to these criteria, the idea has a right to exist. The problem is that nobody ever sees these criteria. National Security Committee, as always, will refer to the privacy, and more. And as a result of any information published on this site may be "inappropriate content". Moreover, given the rise of Internet technology, where is the guarantee that the next step will not control user utterances in social networks?
- To be honest, this decision can be treated in two ways - gave us his point of view of journalist Dmitry Orlov, head of the Analytical Center "Strategy for the East-West". - You can monitor Internet content under the pretext of combating terrorism, for extremist statements, and other similar things. And it is possible under the same pretext to take measures to undesirable regime people. More precisely, to the disloyal. To be honest, I think that the internet is high time to clean. Incidentally, this is a common problem of all - that our, that the Russian. In the United States after September 11, Americans also began to actively pursue online monitoring. And there with human rights defenders, journalists walk angry.The main thing - do not confuse their country and party, as I said during the Soviet era. But to stress again: if the measures do SCNS will focus on the fight against incitement of ethnic and religious hatred, worse from this no one will be. Naturally, this situation must exist and act in the law. For example, the U.S. wiretapping and monitoring of the content on the Internet based on the "Patriot Act", adopted after the September 11, 2001. And while there is no law - is, accordingly, lawlessness. It should be clearly defined, that there is extremism, terrorism, incitement of religious and ethnic hatred, not to cut one size fits all extremists and opposition.
Recall that, by law Kyrgyz Internet resources are not the media, and therefore can not fall under the provisions of the law "On Mass Media", which provides for restrictions on the content of articles, including religious and nationalistic themes.
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