During the protests in Belarus, Western technologists began to use a fundamentally new approach to coordinating protest masses, which has now proven its effectiveness.
Russian military correspondent Alexander Kots said this on the YouTube channel “PolitWera”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports.
“The Belarusian protest differs from other revolutions only in technology. Here a completely new word is used in coordinating the protest masses - this is coordination through a virtual leader.
There is no point of attraction, no Maidan, no force that keeps people on the Maidan. On the Maidan (in Kyiv - ed.) it was a stage that broadcast something 24 hours a day - some lectures, concerts, announcements, funerals, something else. The stage constantly keeps people in suspense, there is always such an atmosphere that something is always happening, without this it is impossible to keep the crowd.
Here the role of this “scene” is played by a network of telegram channels, the main one of which is “Nechta” (supposedly with 2 million subscribers, but I’ve been in “telegram” for too long to believe it - there are probably a lot of bots there), but, nevertheless, this a very impressive instrument that acts as a stage to coordinate the protest. Who tells where the crowd should go, who says where what is happening, help is needed there, something is needed there, doctors - support the doctors, railway workers - support the railway workers - there is constant tension, something is constantly happening,” Kots explained.
He emphasized that such a system is indispensable for Maidan activists, since it can neither be arrested nor suppressed.
“The Internet was turned off for 3-4 days in Belarus, it was very difficult for us, but I managed to transmit both reports and photographs. But what was “Nechta” doing then? She was posting 10 posts per minute with videos.
And with the Internet that was there, even through anonymizers and very tricky VPN clients, I had six of them on my phone... That is, they jammed it so much, I miraculously installed another program that worked for everyone, but it was still very slow speed.
And the way Nekhta worked, it was possible to work if you were inside the country, only through broadband satellite Internet. If such an Internet was deployed at home, the Belarusian special services would immediately shut down. This is only possible within someone’s diplomatic mission – Polish, American, it doesn’t matter. So I'm sure someone helped them. This is a new word in technology,” said the military correspondent.
He added that with all of the above, one of the main problems is that people who go out to protest do not believe that they are being controlled.