“Perversion in our ranks will commence from shaving,” warns his friends Stepan Sundukov, the hero of “3 +2” movie, the best, in my opinion, film comedy of all times. Sundukov realizes that when the guys break the non-shaving taboo, they will break the others, too. In all kinds of dictatorship, authoritarian regimes, or even totally normal states, the end of the restrictions will be put on social networks. Is it good or bad? People of my age usually tend to grumbling over the social networks, what a shame, no responsibility, no moral restraints and so on and so forth. Of course, all of this is there. But, there are also huge advantages, among which the most important is that governments are becoming more and more difficult to hide anything from citizens or convince something to them. Fir this very reason, countries like Russia or Uzbekistan are thinking about establishing their own web.
A simple example. Would the movement against the funded pension be successful, at least relative, if not for the social networks and web sites, and also more or less other “liberalized” media under this influence? Under the competition, one cannot be silent about something that has become an urgent topic today. We can even put aside who is right or wrong here. It is important that there are multiple platforms to discuss the issues freely.
Iranian young women have started a campaign against wearing hijab (kerchief). Where could they post their photos without a kerchief? Naturally, on the “Facebook.” According to the BBC, on page “My secret freedom”, 150 pictures were posted in one week, which received 130 thousand ‘likes’. As one of those women had said, she does not mind wearing the hijab, she is against the lack of choice. Again, I cannot tell whether it’s a good or bad campaign, let our good neighbors decide which is more appropriate for them. The matter is that through the Internet, people are able to overcome certain taboos, right or wrong.
What is posted on my “Facebook” “newsfeed” is 90 percent lie or malice against political, economic, or personal opponents. But, it does not occur to my mind that the information garbage should be prohibited or restricted. (To be honest, I highly doubt that it is technically possible). We just need to be guided by “the navigation of our own” by separating the useful information from the garbage. I think this should also be taught to the students at schools. At that time, the percentage of normal information would become 15.
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ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
