The Federation Council recently adopted a statement condemning unwarranted political censorship by Western digital giants. Meanwhile, their Russian counterparts - VKontakte and Yandex.Zen - censor family defenders and traditional values in the same way.
Despite the amendments to the Constitution approved by the people and the government's policy of preserving morality, family and demographic security, some Russian (or no longer Russian) companies do not want to work in accordance with the Constitution and do not hesitate to violate it at the first request of their Western partners. In recent months, the most mundane things we used to take for granted have suddenly found themselves under a big question mark. We are talking about the elementary human right to freely express their thoughts - that is, freedom of speech guaranteed by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, according to which: "Everyone has the right to freely seek, receive, transmit, produce and disseminate information in any legal way".
Thus, the social network VKontakte began to purge “intolerant” public pages, which included groups denouncing modern feminism and LGBT* propaganda, and Yandex blocked Zen channel groups "Science for the truth».
First article was blocked Sexuality education in schools - depopulation technology, which reveals the scientific evidence about the results of sexuality education in the West and the impact of WHO sexuality education programs. Following the article, the entire channel was blocked, although there was no "hate speech" there at all.
Ripped off wook-dealing to Western political correctness the absurd phrase "hate speech" in the interpretation of Yandex Zen represents the following: “Any linguistic and artistic means of expressing hatred, including negative statements, calls for discrimination and violence against people or groups of people based on: belonging to social group; race or nationality; sexual orientation or gender identity; age; political views; religion, as well as on any other grounds ".
All this by no means characterizes the direction of the channel, which only illuminates the destructive and antiscientific ideology a radical left-wing political movement known as "LGBT*", which claims that homosexuality is an innate, unchangeable and normal (or even preferable) condition, and fights against propaganda of this ideology. The Science for Truth group does not discriminate or attack people based on their sexual orientation. In highlighting the objective dangers associated with the imposition of the alien LGBT* ideology and expressing its criticism, it does not look at which group the propagandists belong to. They can be people with both heterosexual and homosexual preferences. That is, it is not those who are condemned Group people, and destructive antisocial ideasdistributors of which can belong to virtually any group. All this is happening in full accordance with the laws and policies of our state, which has proclaimed a course towards traditional values, where the Constitution approved by the people defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman. It should be noted that those who disagree with this are against the state and the people.
Yandex is deliberately substituting concepts, confusing "groups of people" with the radical political agenda of LGBT*, whose activists pretend to speak on behalf of all homosexual people and that they represent their interests. In fact, most people with homosexual preferences do not want to have anything to do with the LGBT* movement and its methods and goals. For example:
LGBT* activists do not defend homosexual people, but their political agenda, aimed at radically changing social foundations. They themselves often generate “homophobia” for its subsequent monetization and mobilization of opposition-minded people, who are subsequently used as cheap cannon fodder.
If a homosexual does not conform to the political plans of activists (does not support same-sex adoptions, marriages and gay parades, wants to change, etc.), he is subjected to harassment and persecution by “gay rights” fighters from the LGBT* community disproportionately more than by those who are called homophobes.
In addition, LGBT* activists do not stop trying to pass off the LGBT* community as a real social group, although it is not. They need this in order to turn any criticism of them into a criminal offense under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
Moreover, the LGBT* community has all the signs antisocial groups: “Antisociality is a negative attitude towards social norms or standards of behavior, a desire to oppose them. Including the traditions of a particular social group of people. "
LGBT* activists' protests against the constitutional definition of a family as a union between a man and a woman, provocative hanging of their banners on government buildings, support for anti-Russian policies, and affiliation with foreign agents are just a few examples of the antisocial and illegal activities of the LGBT* movement.
It is also necessary to indicate that can not considered as a social group, a collection of persons united on the basis of illegal or antisocial activity. Don't forgetthat the direct object of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation are public relations that ensure the protection of the foundations of the constitutional system, the integrity and security of the state.
Social groups characterized by:
1) stable interaction, contributing to the strength and stability of their existence;
2) a relatively high degree of unity and cohesion;
3) clearly expressed homogeneity of the composition, suggesting the presence of signs inherent in all members of the group;
4) the ability to enter broader social communities as structural units.
None of the above principles (!) characterize the LGBT* community:
1. Most people who experience same-sex attraction do not want to have anything to do with the LGBT* community and, moreover, feel a deep sense of disgust towards its values and postulates. As the honored doctor of Russia, psychiatrist and sexologist Jan Goland, who led 78 homosexual and 8 transsexual patients to a full heterosexual life, said: “Don't think that all homosexuals are gay activists who go to parades and pickets. There are many more people who suffer from this than those who go to gay clubs. ".
2. There is no unity or cohesion in the LGBT* community either. As lesbian journalist D saidjulia diana robertson: "LGBT* is a powerful propaganda machine, fueled by big corporate money. It is a brute force that has created the illusion of unanimity. But this illusion only arises through the instillation of fear."
According to a bisexual journalist Anastasia Mironova from St. Petersburg, she represents the part of the gay community that does not support same-sex marriage and gay pride parades, and there are thousands, if not hundreds of thousands like her.
In the West, the conflict between trans activists and lesbians is becoming increasingly visible, with the latter increasingly complaining of harassment and discrimination from the “community.” At the last gay pride parade in London, lesbians blocked the march in protest against “lesbian-destroying trans activism” and called on lesbians to leave the “misogynistic LGBT* movement.”
3. There is no need to talk about any homogeneity in the LGBT* community - it is unlikely that there is a more diverse crowd anywhere else than this: some are "homosexual", others are "bisexual", others are "transsexual", while the rest are "pansexual", "genderfluid", "polyamorous", "asexual" and so on. The contours of the LGBT* phenomenon also include everything that "floats" between these already vague "categories". The social network Facebook, for example, offers its users a list of 71 "gender identities". The participants of this movement do not have any common orientation, and consist of representatives of all types of orientations/disorientations and identity disorders, united only by the idea that homosexuality and transsexualism are normal and healthy phenomena.
4. LGBT* groups are not part of any broader social communities. Their activities are focused solely on themselves - and on promoting homosexuality to replenish their ranks.
In this regard, it is necessary to take into account the fact that there is no reason to consider representatives of the LGBT* community a social group! The entire "identity" of representatives of the LGBT* community is based either on their own statements or on their choice of sexual partners.
The nuances of sexual life - who prefers to have sex with whom - cannot be a criterion for separating into a real social group. Otherwise, on the same basis, zoophiles, pedophiles, fetishists, unfaithful husbands, masturbators, impotents, as well as patients who consider themselves, for example, animals or Napoleons, will be able to demand separation into a separate social group. It should be noted that, similar to the rhetoric of LGBT* activists, some of the above-mentioned representatives claim that they were born this way and can do nothing about their desires.
Also, an individual’s declaration of belonging to a certain social group is not enough to make him a member of that group. And this is all that is required to become a member of the LGBT* community. Otherwise, it turns out that anyone who says “I am gay” or “I feel like a woman” can demand special rights on this basis - for example, changing the constitutional definition of marriage bypassing the democratic process, etc. And confirmation by “practice” is not at all a mandatory condition for belonging to the LGBT* community - any child can declare himself “gay” or “bi-”, and the community will accept him with open arms. In addition, homosexual behavior often does not coincide with orientation: many homosexuals (about 50%, according to the study Ruzieva 2017.) have contact with women, while most heterosexuals engage in homosexual intercourse in places not so distant.
Lesbian Dr. Lisa Diamond, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychological Association, sexuality researcher, and recipient of the APA LGBT* Committee's Distinguished Achievement Award, said in the above-mentioned lecture: “The categories of LGBT* are arbitrary and meaningless. They represent concepts that exist in our culture, but they do not represent phenomena that exist in nature. We [LGBT*] used these categories as part of our strategy to gain civil rights, and now that we know that is not true, it becomes very difficult. In order for a group of people to receive protected status under the law, they must be distinctive and permanent. The queer community does not meet the Supreme Court’s criteria for such status because it is incredibly diverse and unstable: some are fully gay, others are partially gay; someone who was gay last year may not be this year, etc.”
However, on Yandex Zen's support service, as expected, the above arguments produced an effect similar to what produces peas on a wall.
Blocking an article describing the danger of introducing sex education and demonstrating its uselessness in reducing the incidence of STDs and reducing pregnancies in young people is contrary to Article 29 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Restricting the dissemination of scientific and historical information published in the article may involve Russian children in cruel experiments on Western children. Blocking such information is an anti-state practice that contradicts not only the Constitution of the Russian Federation, but also Declarations on freedom of expression and information. Moreover, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 19 states: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes the freedom to freely adhere to one's convictions and the freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas by any means and regardless of state borders. "
Also a joint OSCE declaration expresses concern about some measures taken by Internet intermediaries to restrict access to digital content or its distribution, including through the use of automated procedures such as algorithms or digital systems for the removal of content by recognition, which by their nature are opaque, do not ensure compliance with minimum procedural standards and/or unlawfully restrict access to content or its distribution. This practice has become especially widespread on the video hosting site YouTube, where absolutely everything that does not coincide with the opinion of LGBT* activists is considered “discriminatory” statements - from Lectures professor pointing to the psychopathological component of homosexuality, before citations statistics on HIV infection. And here's an example of such a video:
And although this video did not contain any discriminatory statements, but was a compilation of facts from scientific and historical sources on the issue of reducing the birth rate, the appeal was rejected.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said the company consults with the LGBT* community on an ongoing basis to ensure they don't feel discriminated against. YouTube reserves the right to punish even those who don't necessarily violate the rules, based on the fact that discrimination can be considered "patterns of behavior that border on discrimination across a user's videos." That is, even if the videos themselves don't violate the rules, but the overall "intolerant" focus is evident, the channel can be closed.
Despite the fact that there are many videos on YouTube and other social networks that clearly violate the rules (they contain discriminatory statements, calls for violence and hostility towards individuals or groups of people, etc.), videos that do not contain such statements, but describe the historical background of the current state of society, tell the true history of the LGBT* movement, the history of the depathologization of homosexuality and the political reasons for this process, and argue against the mythology of the LGBT* movement, are blocked. The Tsargrad TV channel's YouTube channel was removed after a program about family values was aired on it. Here are several such materials that were removed for censorship reasons. You can see for yourself what was said above.
In the race for the right to be considered the most tolerant in Runet, VKontakte LLC does not lag behind, which, referring to the wishes of some handshake "users, clients and partners", introduced the policy "Heightspitch"that prohibits “hostility, offensive behavior and unfair treatment” towards people and groups of people, including on the basis of their “sexual and gender identity”. And what exactly is considered an "unfair attitude" is, depending on their moods and according to criteria known only to them, VK administrators, among whom there are many owners of the same "sexual and gender identity".
As stated by VK in its updated rules
“We block profiles and communities through which they distribute:
• hostile, threatening and encouraging statements of violence, attacks on a person or a group of people in order to humiliate human dignity or assertion of inferiority;
• calls for isolation or segregation (for example, for certain people to live separately: “take them out,” “let them live there in ... and don't stick their heads out”, etc.), wishes for serious harm and calls to inflict it, encouragement of persecution or offensive behavior, hidden calls or incitement to violence (often accompanied by calls to "drive" such people, "send them to the dump", etc.);
• verbal confirmation of the superiority of some groups over others to justify violence, discrimination, segregation or isolation on the basis of sexual and gender identity, the presence of physical features or diseases (they can be manifested in the form of comparing a specific group of people with insects, dirt, non-humans, similar rhetoric).
Such statements are unacceptable on our platform, including in the form of jokes and memes. "
Under such vague criteria, if you wish, you can bring any commentary challenging the normality of sexual deviations. For example, the adage “let them do their perversions at home” quite falls under the “call for segregation or isolation”, the mention that transsexualism is a mental disorder falls under the “statements of inferiority,” and a quote from the Bible that sodomy is an abomination can interpreted as "contempt for other people's values."
At the same time, the reason for blocking a group can be not only its entries, but also user comments.
The platform's management does not even hide its loyalty to the LGBT* movement, posting in the window a six-color flag, placed in their announcements and openly displaying LGBT* symbols and photographs from gay parades, as does head department of moderation and administration of VK. A answers VK support services are written as if from an LGBT* propaganda manual.
The Federation Council recently adopted Statement of Freedom of Speech Violation by Global American Internet Companies... In it senators note that Western digital corporations “for political reasons, without legal grounds and contrary to international law, restrict freedom of speech on social networks of the Internet information and telecommunications network.” The senators condemn the policies of “American Internet giants”, which “have taken the path of widespread use of censorship, contrary to the principles of democracy, the generally recognized right of citizens to search, receive and disseminate information” and associate this with the fact that Western social networks are subordinated to “the political goals of the ruling circles United States of America."
Law enforcement agencies have yet to check the activities of VKontakte LLC and Yandex.Zen for compliance with the laws and policies of our country, whose government, we repeat, has proclaimed a course towards traditional and family values, and where the Constitution approved by the people defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman.