The events of recent days have shown the full power of the influence of the Internet on public, mass consciousness, on human minds, moods and ideas. Lacking a single forming, guiding center in the person of a certain opposition party or any social group, the people of Egypt took to the streets and overthrew the tyrant they hated
Social networks played a colossal role in this, especially Facebook, where information spread almost instantly, and from numerous sources at once, and it
was simply impossible to distort it in a false light. Remember how the details of the explosion at the Domodedovo airport were instantly dispersed by eyewitnesses and victims directly from the scene, through tweets and feed ?!
This means that in Russia there are prerequisites for such self-organization of a colossal number of people everywhere, without a single center that could be isolated from the public or an opposition leader who could be thrown into jail under any far-fetched pretext.
Clever people in the Kremlin, holding their noses to the wind, caught the smell of fried food and somehow put pressure on Pavel Durov, the general director of the largest Russian-language social network in Vkontakte, and on the night of February 11, free registration of accounts was closed there. The government is trying to take control of this 21st century thermonuclear force, the source of the spontaneous social explosions that reshape the world map - the Internet and the associated freedom of instant information exchange.
The most important weapon of the Third World War is information, of which WikiLeaks is a clear example. It was this site, as a phenomenon, that revealed this obvious, albeit a little shocking fact to the world community.
We are looking forward to the soonest innovations regarding social networks! And the more they follow, the more open will be the fear of the current government before the people.
In this regard, I cannot but recall the establishment of the Safe Internet League and cyber squads, which take control of Internet publications.
And this is just the beginning.
Gentlemen, the Third World Information War, announced by
WikiLeaks - HAS BEGUN !!!!
What is your opinion on this ?! Is there such a connection or is it just a figment of my fevered imagination ?!
PS
The social network VKontakte, the Russian analogue of Facebook, has more than 111 million registered users, and about 23 million people visit the site every day.
