The Internet connects but also separates people.

Automatized AI-based language translators like Google Translate make all of us language specialists. This kind of AI-based solution can translate almost every text or speech into any other language. When that kind of system translates speech, it uses speech to text-application, then it translates the language to English. And after that, it translates English into some other language. 

These kinds of tools are effective and free translation tools. And they are easy to use. So they are making social media applications more effective and fun. But the language and Internet are also making this kind of system dangerous. We must realize that language is not just spoken words.

Language is body language but it's also culture. And if people don't realize that, it can cause problems. The thing is that people must realize that some other people might have different cultural backgrounds. And that person might have different opinions. 

At this point, people misunderstand that we always must accept other people's opinions. We have the right to defend our opinions and values. Even if some other people live in some other country. And even if that person has strong opinions. We have the right to have different opinions than some other people. 

If other people don't like our opinions, that's not a problem. We just can't please everyone, even if we want to. Discussion means that we talk about things at the same level and on an equal footing. Many people think that conversation is synonymous with ordering or commanding people. That is not true. If we want to discuss something we must have the preparedness and will to hear other people's opinions. 

We must not like those opinions. But we must realize that other people might not like our opinions either. Sometimes we face a situation where we must do something that we don't like. In those cases, we have no choice but to select. But that doesn't mean that we like those situations. And in those situations, we also have the right to say that we don't like what we do. 

But in the net, the problem is that. We cannot see the opponent while we discuss in the net. We can give answers to what is not pleasing to those people. This is the problem with text-based discussion boards. In those discussion boards, people just write things. And other people answer those texts if they answer. 

Those texts are the cases where we should think about, what we are writing. Those texts are giving evidence against us. That means nobody knows if we are joking at some discussion board. That's why we must think very carefully about what we say and especially write on the net. 

Russia plans to separate itself from the global Internet

Kimmo Huosionmaa

Some governments like Russia, China, and Iran have created their own versions of the Internet. In those national networks controlling people is easier and the information what would "harm the government" would not be delivered to the world. When we are thinking this kind of version of the network, it would mean also very big trouble for the directions, who need to use multiple sources for creating picture of something, what is under the focus, and it's dangerous to leave the people hanging in the information, what comes from the one source.

 If Russia would deny them access to the domestic home pages, that would cause the situation, that the Western society would not have the ability to follow the internal politics in Russia? The domestic propaganda would be very effective if people cannot use multiple sources for making sure, that the news is faked. One of the examples of the existence of propaganda or faked news is that the ability to get information from multiple sources is denied. This thing is very suspicious because the reason for denying information must be found somewhere.

And one of the reasons for denying freedom of information would be that the system uses faked homepages for making sure, that the information would be true even it is faked. When we are thinking about the advantage of Russia, there would be ever been freedom of the words. Then this thing is caused that the focus in the information is every time patriotism and supporting the leaders of the country.

Or as we say, the official rules for the press and information is that they should benefit the state, and this makes the things very interesting. We are always meet the media and other things, which is not supporting the government or is against our own personal opinion. The thing is that this kind of things must be tolerated because this makes possible to compare the ways, how every side are delivering information and tells, what is going on. But there is one problem for those national internets, and it's about computer viruses.

The problems with those national internets that they are safer to pollute from outside. If those national "internets" are polluted with virus code, it would not infect computers, what is outside the national network. The thing is, that if the manufacturers of the computers would not allow updating the systems, what are used on the Internet, the operating systems would become old. And there is possible to make viruses for that equipment. That's why those nations must program their own resistance programs, and the thing what is needed is highly trained professionals, who have high-level knowledge about the malware programs, and if those nations want to use something like Apple, Android or Microsoft productions in their systems, they must get the updates, or entire Internet will be infected.

The computer viruses can be installed in the microchips and in some scenarios the computers, which are installed in the net needs "permission" to operate. This permission is the code, what tells the computer, that it is in the right area. And if it would be transported to the wrong area, the virus would delete the entire system. This kind of things is made for limit the use of laptops and cell-phones in the areas like war-zones and countries where is prohibited to ship those things,  or everywhere where they should not deliver. That program would deny using those cell-phones and computers on the wrong side.

That's why the nations like North Korea have created their own Linux projects, where they would create own IT-infrastructure. There are very many things, which makes that kind of projects problematic. Those systems must have properly made a kernel that they could communicate with microcircuits. And this would not be possible if the programmers would not have codes of those microchips and in mobile solutions is used similar things. This means that those nations must begin to build their own cell-phones.