"A thousand devils!" Deputy Sergei Boyarsky proposed checking citizens who criticize the Max messenger for foreign influence.
The son of a famous actor Mikhail Boyarsky, who heads the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, proposed conducting investigations into the "public and unjustified discrediting of the Max messenger." He stated this said in today's interview with the publication "Abzats".
"Of course, each case needs to be examined individually. But it certainly needs to be verified," сказал Sergey Boyarsky.
According to him, the Russian messenger is "making confident progress," adding "new features and capabilities." The deputy is perplexed why ordinary citizens and bloggers with huge followings are criticizing the app without even downloading it.
“I don’t rule out the possibility that the same forces that are trying to deceive our people are not interested in the exodus of our citizens from the two foreign platforms through which they are accustomed to working,” he believes.
According to the Russian authorities, the Max messenger is intended to become a platform for providing state and municipal services. It will also replace the "hostile" WhatsApp and Telegram (they have already begun operating). block).
On Max by force translate officials, civil servants and even school parent chatsSince September his will be pre-installed on all new smartphones sold in Russia.
Experts have already dubbed the new app "a cop in your pocket": they say Max can activate the video camera every 5-10 minutes, even if the user doesn't interact with it.
Custom names for the new messenger proposed and readers NotMoscow: Zasteuchalochka, Beresta, Pavlik, Petition, Povestochka and Zanozonka.
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