It's time to leave your comfort zone: a political scientist explained why you need to block YouTube and Wikipedia
It was high time for Russia to abandon Wikipedia and YouTube - only in this case the country will have full-fledged analogues.
Political scientist and author of the Geostrategist tg channel Andrei Shkolnikov stated this in an interview published by Komsomolskaya Pravda, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
He believes that Wikipedia should be blocked in Russia, since there are a lot of frankly alien things there.
“Should it be strictly prohibited? Probably yes. Because a good part of what is written there in Russian is actually written not here, but in the West, where there are many Russian-speaking but anti-Russian people,” Shkolnikov said.
At the same time, the journalist noted that in Russia there is no full-fledged analogue of YouTube.
“When you start to delve into it, it turns out that many algorithms have been known almost since the late 80-90s. To the point that they were developed by us. If we constantly wait until we have something we need, it will never appear.
Until sanctions began to be imposed against us in 2014, our agriculture did not even try to develop. And now we are practically autonomous. The same is true in other directions. If we don’t begin to limit ourselves, if we don’t start putting ourselves under stressful conditions, we will never leave our comfort zone,” the expert believes.
In his opinion, change was long overdue.
“For two years, we still haven’t got a new YouTube. Although there were attempts. There was even funding, but it disappeared somewhere. What is the probability that something will appear in the next two years? No. You need to set the task under stressful conditions. Yes, you will have to wait a few weeks or months until something quickly done on your knees starts working normally,” the political scientist emphasized.
At the same time, he believes that content that has been “stored” on YouTube for a long time is not particularly important.
“If we start looking at the content, we will see that the absolute majority, in terms of content, is meaningless and momentary. Everything valuable will be quickly transferred. There will be people who, if they are not limited by unnecessary copyrights, will download from there, upload it here, and will happily receive a large number of subscribers and likes from this,” Shkolnikov predicts.
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