МИД рассматривает информацию как оружие
The Russian government, the leading advocate for a cyber-arms-control agreement, prefers the term «information war» and describes the threat in terms that make cyber conflict sound like a battle of ideas.
Each year since 1998, Russia has introduced a resolution at the United Nations calling for an international agreement to combat what it calls «information terrorism.» Russian leaders worry that the Internet makes it so easy for people to communicate that a government could use the Internet to challenge another country’s political system. Some Russian diplomats have actually revived an old Soviet term — «ideological aggression» — to describe what governments could do to each other via the Internet.
At a U.N. disarmament conference in 2008, Sergei Korotkov of the Russian Defense Ministry argued that anytime a government promotes ideas on the Internet with the goal of subverting another country’s government — even in the name of democratic reform — it should qualify as «aggression.» And that, in turn, would make it illegal under the U.N. Charter.
«Practically any information operation conducted by a state or a number of states against another state would be qualified as an interference into internal affairs,» Korotkov said through an interpreter. So any good cause, like [the] promotion of democracy, cannot be used as a justification for such actions.»
The United States has consistently opposed efforts to limit Internet communication, but the Russians are not alone in their interpretation of the «information» threat. James Lewis, who has advised the U.N. Institute for Disarmament Research, says he’s heard similar views from several governments.
«The thing that really unites them is their desire to control information, to control content,» Lewis says. «They see information as a weapon. An official from one of those countries told me [that] Twitter is an American plot to destabilize foreign governments. That’s what they think. And so they’re asking, ‘How do we get laws that control the information weapon?’ «
Без комментариев. Твиттер как оружие американской минобороны. ЖЖ тогда что? Угнанный крейсер, заправленный газом и наполненный супом, который можно потопить в любой момент?
Гугл, фейсбук, и все эти ваши интернеты — тоже ересь и оружие :))
