Recently, my friends in the social network Vkontakte began to repost a very old "duck" which is already about a year. It begins like this: "Since Monday, the old VK program is being deleted ..." Having read the text of this message, I just smiled and forgot. But when I saw a dozen reposts from friends, it made me worry and write an article on this topic ...
To begin with, I give the full text of this post:
"The social network" Vkontakte "will be closed from next week, I will leave this record so that my photos, correspondence, etc. do not scatter over the Internet.
In response to the new "VKontakte" policy, I hereby declare that all my personal data, photographs, drawings, correspondence and so on are the objects of my copyright (according to the Bern Convention). For the commercial use of all the above-mentioned objects of copyright in each particular case, my written permission is required.
Everyone who reads this text, can copy it to his wall in "VKontakte". After that, you will be protected by copyright laws. This communiqué informs VKontakte that the disclosure, copying, dissemination of my personal information or any other unlawful actions in relation to my profile on the social network is strictly prohibited. "
So, let's begin to disassemble the text of this "warning" in detail. (The article is intended for ordinary users Internet, so I will not use complex it terms.)
"Because from Monday the old VK program is deleted, I will leave this record so that my photos, correspondence, etc. do not scatter over the Internet. " According to the author of this message Vkontakte is a single program in which all user data is located and when you delete this program all the data miraculously flies across the Internet .... From the first words it is clear that this message is intended for people who are not at all familiar with the arrangement of Web sites. All the users of VKontakte are located on the servers of the company. All programs and even the site itself Vk.com just take information from the servers and output it to users. In addition, there are many programs for Vkontakte, except official clients for various devices there are also unofficial clients that are working to this day.
"In response to the new VKontakte policy, I hereby declare that all my personal data, photographs, drawings, correspondence and so on are the objects of my copyright (according to the Bern Convention). For the commercial use of all the above-mentioned objects of copyright in each particular case, my written permission is required. "
It would seem a very serious statement with reference to such a document as the "Berne Convention". But even here everything is not so honest, as the author shows. "The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works" is the name of this document, signed in the 19th century and revised in 1979. Naturally, this document does not apply to Vkontakte and the Internet as a whole (it simply did not exist then).
VKontakte is now a public company. That's why all users of this social network are recommended to post on their pages a similar "privacy notice", otherwise (if the notice is not published on the page at least once), you automatically resolve any use of data from your page, your photos and information published in messages on the wall of your page.
"Everyone who reads this text, can copy it to his wall in VKontakte." After that, you will be protected by copyright laws. This communiqué informs VKontakte that the disclosure, copying, dissemination of my personal information or any other unlawful actions in relation to my profile on the social network is strictly prohibited "
But this paragraph of the message is just a lie, and not even covered up. And I'll tell you why. According to the legislation of the Russian Federation, the content created by the author is already protected by law and additional actions, to protect it (in our case posting this message) is not required. The Civil Code of the Russian Federation, Article 1259, paragraph 4 states: "The registration of a work or the observance of any other formalities is not required for the origin, implementation and protection of copyright."
Moreover, all user data are protected by Federal Law No. 152-FZ of July 27, 2006 "On Personal Data" and no additional actions are required on the part of the user.
Still, the author's words are not entirely clear: " VKontakte now is a public company ». As the publicity of the company refers to personal data - remains a big secret.
From this brief "investigation" it becomes clear that this message is a lie, or in the language of the Internet: a duck.
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Herman Klimenko laughed at the ridiculous spam-attack on users of the popular Russian social network
March 6, 2017 could be a day of mourning for users of the popular Russian social network "VKontakte" (since late February, the resource is spreading the message about its imminent blocking), but the next closure of the site was not destined to happen. "Real time" decided to understand the situation and collected five facts about the problems of the popular social network.
Why will not March 6 become a "day of sorrow"?
Since the end of February on the social network "VKontakte" "message" about the imminent closure of the resource, and on the eve of the publication with the same content, fasted spammers at a rate of once a minute. In the test of the post is called the specific closing date - March 6, 2017 - and the responsible person who made the official statement is Herman Klimenko, who, according to the authors of the message, is the press secretary of the "VK" (in fact Klimenko is the adviser to the president of the Russian Federation on Internet issues).
Herman Klimenko has already commented on the situation to the press, saying that everyone is frankly laughing at this message, and he is not a spokesman for the social network, which, incidentally, will not be closed.
Note that even such a clumsy delivery of the message could cause a small surge of panic and increased attention to the news about the closure of the resource. At the same time, users of the social network were frightened by the fact that after blocking the "VC", their personal information would be publicly available, and to avoid this, they need to copy this message to their walls.
Herman Klimenko has already commented on the situation to the press, saying that everyone is frankly laughing at this message, and he is not a spokesman for the social network, which, incidentally, will not be closed. Photo by rosbalt.ru
Accidents in data centers "VC" and regular failures
Rumors about the upcoming closure of the "VC" have notably warmed up a large-scale malfunction in the social network, which occurred at the beginning of this week and lasted for several hours. But it should be noted that VKontakte, like any other resource, is at risk of being unavailable for a number of technical reasons.
In general, in the history of the "VC" there are several major failures in the work. One of the most notable occurred on July 25, 2010: more than four hours the site remained inaccessible due to a power outage in the data center. Another failure occurred on July 27, 2014: then, as a result of the accident in one of the data centers, the site was also unavailable to users.
August 4, 2015 the site "VKontakte" remained inaccessible for more than two hours. According to the press service of the company, the cause of the malfunction was the physical rupture of the cable connecting the data centers. Later it was reported that the cause of the failure was "a fatal confluence of a number of circumstances." Increased cases of inaccessibility of "VKontakte" led to the popularization of a hashtag on # Twitter.
In all to blame Pavel Durov?
In addition to the hashtag among users, the opinion spread that regular disruptions in work began exactly after Pavel Durov left the company. April 1, 2014 on his page "VKontakte" Durov announced that he was leaving the post of general director of the company.
In his address, the founder of the social network argued that in 2013 the freedom of his actions as general director of VKontakte was greatly reduced. He lamented the fact that the principles laid down in the foundation of the social network became more difficult to defend and formal posts in the current circumstances are uninteresting to him. Experts believe that in this way Durov hinted at serious pressure from the siloviki, demanding the closure of opposition groups "VC", censorship and access to personal data of users.
Durov sold his shares to a well-known media manager and former CEO of MegaFon Ivan Tavrin, and the whole social network passed into the possession of Mail.Ru Group.
Among users, the view spread that regular disruptions in work began exactly after Pavel Durov left the company. Photo by aif.by
Not the first "closure" in 10 years of social network existence
The forthcoming "closing" of "VKontakte" will not be the first and obviously not the last in the history of the social network. In 2009, the resource was to be closed by a court decision, in March 2012 Pavel Durov himself allegedly stated that "his child will stop working because it has become too difficult to manage the site."
In the expanses of the "VC" there is even a thematic group entitled "Maybe the truth, maybe not ..." VKontakte "will be closed", in which, every six months, panic reports appear that the social network will be closed.
Fasskadnik feykov
"VKontakte" is a fairly large-scale hotbed of fake news not only about its closure. As well as through any social network, fictitious stories of varying degrees spread through the "VC", which, sometimes without preliminary verification, fall into the media and are perceived by the population as proven facts.
Such cases are also periodically encountered in the Tatarstan press: literally last year the local newspaper spread the news that during a fire on an industrial site of the RT a huge piece of concrete overlap flew from an explosion toward the correctional colony and, with the fall, demolished the watch tower with a submachine gunner, broke through the fence and the restricted area, and the prisoners allegedly fled wherever they looked.
Lina Sarimova
The head of the press service of the social network "VKontakte" Vladislav Tsyplukhin said that rumors about the closure of this resource are groundless. "It's all nonsense," he added. On his page "VKontakte" Tsyplukhin also noted that "some idiotic" rumor was born, which had to be refuted. The source of this data remains unknown, but the other day the rumor about the closure of Vkontakte once again spread through the media and blogs. It is reported that the social network will be closed, and a specific date is specified - March 15. Close the "VKontakte" authorities due to the refusal of its administration to close the opposition groups: we already wrote, how the "VKontakte" management responded to the FSB's proposal .
In addition, recently the founder of the social network "VKontakte" Pavel Durov posted in his microblog Twitter a summons from the prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg, where he was ordered to come to testify about the opposition groups "VKontakte", but he could not come because he did not have time to read . Shortly thereafter, he sent a letter to the editor of Lenta, explaining his attitude to the situation.
There Durov pointed out in particular that if the service wants to preserve the domestic Internet industry, then requests for blocking the opposition are inapplicable, including because it means giving competitors a head start, but it is not going to become an "icon of liberalism" and considers "talk about voting , elections, rallies and citizenship<...> a form of mass entertainment, along with a discussion of football matches and playing at the Happy Farmer. "
Perhaps the panic began after rumors arose that a new draft law was being drafted in Russia that would block sites (websites promoting propaganda for the use, manufacture, sale of narcotic drugs and extremist materials would also be included in a single database of Internet threats) controlling bodies.
The Safe Internet League, together with business and officials, has drafted a bill obliging operators to block websites with illegal content. The project pursues a good goal - the fight against child pornography, but can lead to the emergence of full-fledged Internet censorship.
However, in the bill it is not only about sites with children's porn - websites that "promote the use, manufacture, sale of narcotic drugs" and "extremist materials" will also be included in a single database of Internet threats. To block such websites, operators will be obliged "on the basis of a decision of the federal body that performs the functions of supervision in the field of communication about including the site in a single database of Internet threats, that is Roskomnadzor.
The fight against child porn league starts with "Yandex". The search engine refuses to remove the relevant images and links from the issuance, Davydov explains: "We applied to Yandex with a request to filter such content, but the company refused, referring to the fact that there is no corresponding law in Russia."
With the search engine it was possible to agree, however соцсеть "In contact with" she herself undertook to regularly clean the content, while the Mail.ru pages are moderated by special people.
Appeared in Krasnodar and quickly spread to specific circles. The story is this: the elections to the State Duma passed and one of all the beloved party did not like the way "honest" elections were covered in social networks. The first channel tells one thing, and in the interview they honestly write about cases of arbitrariness.
Is it true that VKontakte will be closed?
Well, the work on curbing unnecessary activity began. Under the pretext of combating piracy, audio records will be closed first, then the video will be taken away, then groups and public groups will be blocked under the pretext of combating extremism and child suicide. By the fall of 2017, VK will have little left. Finally, the closure of Vkontakte should take place before the presidential elections, that is, by 2018.
Experts reacted to the news with skepticism. The fact is that Pavel Durov, with whom the secret services could not agree on the closure of opposition groups, left the company for a long time and now Vkontakte is controlled by the pro-government oligarch, so no one will block everything quickly and quietly. Secondly, Vkontakt users are much more numerous than citizens who go to elections and the closure of the social network can turn out to be really mass discontent.
Vk will be closed for Ukrainians too
The authorities of Ukraine believe that the Russian social network Vkontakte threatens the security of the country. The arguments are simple and logical: Ukrainians lay out the dossier on themselves, but they are stored in the territory of another state, which the Ukrainian authorities consider hostile. Is it necessary to solve the problem? It is necessary! Vkontakte in Ukraine will be closed. Sooner or later, but it will happen.
Is it true that VKontakte will be closed on Monday?
No it is not true. The impact will be done at the most unexpected and inopportune moment, when the contactors will peacefully sleep. Woke up, look: a Vkontakak Tyu-tu. Where can I upload my shit pictures? Where to write all the nonsense, which Contact lasted for many years? Imagine the drama? Heart in the contact can not stand.
In Ukraine, Vkontakte has already been closed
On April 28, 2017, the National Security and Defense Council decided to block Vkontakte on the territory of Ukraine. Poroshenko signed the decree. The document prescribes blocking access to VKontakte, Odnoklassnikam, Mail.Ru and Yandex. Thus, the Ukrainian contactees go to the forest.
Secrets of Vkontakte
A selection of interesting facts about your favorite social network:
- Did you know that there is about but none of them gives a 100% guarantee? VKontakte is unbeatable!
- Every year it becomes more difficult How do you think, why? The answer will surprise you.
- And you knew that only because of this sotsset happy us stable work and high performance. If the Vkontakte server were on Windows, the social network would have been infected with viruses for a long time and would fall in a day.
- Experts have tried
- The most popular adult video in Contact is from Maria Evdokimova.
- At her aunt She describes through what torments had to pass before the dull admins of the VC restored her access. Shock!
- What happens if I choose a password for someone else's Vkontakte page and log in? Solder immediately 2 articles of the Criminal Code and give a two-pointer.
