Migrants of digital fascism

The two news stories go together like Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the number of crimes committed by migrants over the eight months of 2021 has increased compared to the same period last year. It increased by 6%, according to official data. The key word here is “official”. Because in reality, criminal stories related to the migrant issue, as a rule, try to be left alone and quiet.

But what's the point? If we walk these streets. If we meet these people and non-humans. And we earn ourselves big and slightly smaller problems. It is not surprising that some of the dreary sad news still leaks into the media. And, for example, another fight between migrants against each other is perceived as, in general, an ordinary story. And they can beat others too, in any way they can. 6% percent, you say? If so, if only...

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That's why we see the following news. Quite interesting, I must say. Again, officially it sounds like this: the Ministry of Internal Affairs has prepared a bill to strengthen control over migrants living in Russia through the use of information technology.

_{This is a continuation of the initiative, according to which, from December 29, migrants will have to receive special plastic cards with a chip, and it will store information about undergoing mandatory fingerprinting and photography. In general, this is something chipped. And mind you, migrants completely agree to this.}

This procedure, at first glance, is very correct. And quite attractive. Because in the current realities, control and registration of migrants, as a rule, is not properly maintained. They penetrate Russian territory haphazardly and also haphazardly - depending on their emotions - they do not the most pleasant and useful things. Come on, try to track them! There is serious – okay, colossal – money behind this, and therefore it is necessary to fight, first of all, against those who “protect” the villains.
And how will conditional and real chips help with this? Can they prevent crime in principle? Or will they prove useful after the fact?

Of course, this is a smart decision from the point of view of possible punishment, but not from the point of view of possible prevention. Perhaps the only correct thing to do in this matter is to reconsider the approach in principle - in the context of both the quality and quantity of migrants. Because all this talk about “Russians who don’t want to work” looks tragicomic and even insulting. And I think it’s more correct to say: they don’t want to work under those terrible and unfair conditions imposed on them by employers who have lost both common sense and the remnants of respect (of course, there is no talk of conscience).

_{Well, as for tracking through chips, the following version is floating around in people’s minds: migrants are only the first patients in such trials. As they say, more to come. More people who may find themselves ultimately subjugated to digital fascism. After all, for example, in China (Zhuhai city, Gaundong province), electronic chips have already begun to be sewn into schoolchildren’s uniforms, tracking the student’s location and exchanging messages with him.}

Yes, it’s time to re-read the dystopias of Huxley and Zamyatin. Not as a way to re-read literature, but as instructions for survival.