Deleting VK on Monday. Which social networks will be closed. “VK” may be closed for a long period. VKontakte has already been closed in Ukraine

Is it true that VKontakte will be deleted on Monday? and got the best answer

Answer from Freddy[guru]
No

Answer from Jack Vosmerkin[guru]
Certainly!

Answer from Fghfyhf fhhfhfh[guru]
They won’t delete it no matter how many times they said it!! ! Where does the info come from?

Answer from Nyashka Shy[newbie]
WHAT?

Answer from Ghost[guru]
I would like) but no

Answer from Buglen[newbie]
No, these are rumors. You behave like everyone else, check the information first!

Answer from Chilly Willy[guru]
yes, as well as classmates, mail ru and Twitter with Facebook (God, what can they come up with).

Answer from [guru]
Yes! you can delete your account

Answer from Zhenya Krivorot[guru]
Did Kiselev teach you to write such nonsense?

Answer from Amir Tatlyev[newbie]
where can I find out the office? info?

Answer from Ksenia Leirina[newbie]
Over the last period of time, a lot of information has appeared in the media about the participation of the creator of the social network “VKontakte” - Pavel Durov - in an accident that occurred in St. Petersburg in early April, as a result of which a policeman was injured.
On April 16, a search was carried out in the VKontakte office, and the press secretary stated that Durov walked and did not have a car.
Many are confident that the social network “VKontakte” will not cease to exist, since it is very popular in Russia and abroad. It was created similar to the American Facebook and is one of the largest projects in Russia. Initially, it was created only for university students and their graduates, however, today a lot of people of different ages are registered here, and this is more than 190 million people. Daily site traffic is 46 million people.
The network was founded on October 10, 2006. Then the site was registered under the domain name vkontakte.ru, but in February last year it was decided to switch to Domain name international format– vk.com. The owner of the network is VKontakte LLC, in which most of the shares belonged to Vyacheslav and Mikhail Mirilashvili (about 40%).
In April, the United Capital Partners (UCP) investment fund acquired a 48% stake in VKontakte from Durov’s partners in its creation, the Mirilashvili family. Pavel Durov is the General Director of VKontakte LLC, whose office is located in St. Petersburg.
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Answer from Maria Memarovich[newbie]
So, people who don’t like VK just DON’T SIT THERE! There's no point in making a fuss here!)

Answer from Anfisa Leshchenko[newbie]
Maybe they won’t delete it, but still, it’s because of the group on VKontakte, it ruined this social network. But this is unlikely!!

Answer from Lyokha Shutov[newbie]
recall

Answer from Ruslan Frank[newbie]
Everything will be fine... VK will remain 100% on Facebook and Twitter, I’m not sure! but they will leave VK!

Answer from Andrey Antonov[newbie]
Attention, this is not true, even in VK below for help, go to VK, delete it and read it in Russian, it is written that this is not true!! VK will not be deleted!

Answer from Karina Nechaeva[newbie]
everyone is talking about it. hashtags live. people believe in it. you need to post this entry:
From Monday there will be no VKontakte program. It will be completely removed! ((We only have a little time left to stay on VKontakte! So, so that all your correspondence, pictures, and photos don’t spread all over the Internet, throw this on your wall! VKontakte is now a public company! That’s why all users of this social The network is recommended to place such a “privacy notice” on your pages, otherwise (if the notice is not published on the page at least once), you automatically authorize any use of data from your page, your photos and information published in messages on the wall of your page! Anyone who reads this text can copy it to their wall in VKontakte! After that, you will be protected by copyright laws! This communique notifies VKontakte that the disclosure, copying, distribution of my personal information or any other illegal actions by in relation to my profile on a social network is strictly prohibited.
From Monday there will be no VKontakte program. It will be completely removed! ((We only have a little time left to stay on VKontakte! So, so that all your correspondence, pictures, and photos don’t spread all over the Internet, throw this on your wall! VKontakte is now a public company! That’s why all users of this social The network is recommended to place such a “privacy notice” on your pages, otherwise (if the notice is not published on the page at least once), you automatically authorize any use of data from your page, your photos and information published in messages on the wall of your page! Anyone who reads this text can copy it to their wall in VKontakte! After that, you will be protected by copyright laws! This communique notifies VKontakte that the disclosure, copying, distribution of my personal information or any other illegal actions by in relation to my profile on a social network is strictly prohibited

Surely many of the VKontakte users have ever thought about what would happen if the social network disappeared. the main problem The problem is that many users store a lot of personal information, friends, and correspondence in their accounts. So this weekend, users of the domestic “social network” were seized with panic when news appeared that VKontakte was being closed, and the personal data of users would become public knowledge.

The panic was provoked by one of the VKontakte users, who posted a post on his wall, sharing with friends that the social network would be closed in the near future. In order to protect his personal data from being viewed by other users, according to the informant, it was necessary to post his message to each user on his wall.

“From Monday there will be no VKontakte program. It will be completely deleted! ((We only have a little time left to stay on VKontakte! So, so that all your correspondence, and pictures, and photos don’t spread all over the Internet, throw this on your wall!”, - says the text of this message.

The message spread very quickly on social networks. Mass publications began on social networks with the hashtags #Bring BackDurov #vk_live #VkNotBecome. To stop the panic, the VKontakte administration even had to make an official statement that the site was not going to be closed, and technical support conducted its own investigation into the dissemination of false information. It turned out that this action was just an attempt to promote one of the accounts of an unscrupulous user.

Despite all the management’s assurances, the prospect of the social network’s imminent closure frightened the majority of users who use VKontakte not only for work, but also to store important data. The incident makes us think about the role of social networks in our lives. Note that this is not an isolated case; a similar situation occurred on VKontakte just a couple of months ago.

Recently, my friends on the social network VKontakte began to repost a very old “duck” that has been around for about a year. It starts like this: “Because since Monday old program VK is being deleted...” After reading the text of this message, I just smiled and forgot. But when I saw a dozen reposts from friends, it made me worry and write an article on this topic...

First, here is the full text of this post:

“The social network VKontakte will be closed starting next week, I will leave this entry so that my photos, correspondence, etc. do not spread across the Internet.
In response to the new VKontakte policy, I hereby declare that all my personal data, photographs, drawings, correspondence, etc. are subject to my copyright (according to the Berne Convention). For commercial use of all above-mentioned copyrights, my written permission is required on a case-by-case basis.

Anyone who reads this text can copy it to their wall on VKontakte. You will then be protected by copyright laws. This communique notifies VKontakte that disclosure, copying, dissemination of my personal information or any other illegal actions in relation to my profile on the social network is strictly prohibited.”

So, let's begin to analyze the text of this “warning” in detail. (The article is intended for ordinary Internet users, so I will not use complex IT terms.)

“Because starting Monday the old VK program is being deleted, I will leave this entry so that my photos, correspondence, etc. do not spread across the Internet.” According to the author of this message, VKontakte is one program in which all user data is located, and when this program is deleted, all the data somehow miraculously scatters across the Internet... From the first words it is clear that this message is intended for people who are not at all familiar with the structure of Web sites. All VKontakte user data is located on the company’s servers. All programs and even the Vk.com website itself just take information from servers and display it to users. In addition, there are many programs for Vkontakte; in addition to official clients for various devices, there are also unofficial clients that work to this day.

“In response to the new VKontakte policy, I hereby declare that all my personal data, photographs, drawings, correspondence, etc. are subject to my copyright (according to the Berne Convention). For commercial use of all above-mentioned copyrights, my written permission is required in each specific case.”

It would seem to be a very serious statement with a reference to such a document as the Berne Convention. But even here, not everything is as honest as the author shows. "Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Literary works of art" - this is the name of this document, signed in the 19th century and revised in 1979. Naturally, this document has nothing to do with VKontakte and the Internet in general (it simply did not exist then).

VKontakte is now a public company. That is why all users of this social network are recommended to place such a “privacy notice” on their pages, otherwise (if the notice is not published on the page at least once), you automatically authorize any use of data from your page, your photos and information published on messages on the wall of your page.

“Everyone who reads this text can copy it to their wall on VKontakte.” You will then be protected by copyright laws. This communique notifies VKontakte that disclosure, copying, dissemination of my personal information or any other illegal actions in relation to my profile on the social network is strictly prohibited."

But this paragraph of the message is simply a lie, and not even a lie. And I'll tell you why. According to the legislation of the Russian Federation, content created by the author is already protected by law and additional actions to protect it (in our case, posting this message) are not required. Civil Code of the Russian Federation, Article 1259, paragraph 4, states: “For the emergence, implementation and protection of copyright, registration of a work or compliance with any other formalities is not required.”

Moreover, all user data is protected by Federal Law No. 152-FZ of July 27, 2006 “On Personal Data” and no additional actions are required on the part of the user.

From this brief “investigation” it becomes clear that this message is a lie, or in Internet parlance: a canard.

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German Klimenko laughed at the ridiculous spam attack on users of the popular Russian social network

March 6, 2017 could have become a day of sorrow for users of the popular Russian social network VKontakte (since the end of February, a message about its imminent blocking has been spreading on the resource), however, another closure of the site was not destined to happen. Realnoe Vremya decided to look into the situation and collected five facts about the problems of the popular social network.

Why won't March 6 become a “day of mourning”?

Since the end of February, a message has been circulating on the social network VKontakte about the imminent closure of the resource, and on the eve of publications with the same content, spammers posted at a rate of once a minute. The test post names a specific closing date - March 6, 2017 - and the person in charge who made the official statement is German Klimenko, who, according to the authors of the message, is the press secretary of VK (in fact, Klimenko holds the position of Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation for Internet issues).

German Klimenko has already commented on the situation to the press, saying that everyone is openly laughing at this message, and he is not the press secretary of the social network, which, by the way, will not be closed.

Note that even such a clumsy presentation of the message could cause a small surge of panic and increased attention to the news about the closure of the resource. At the same time, users of the social network were frightened by the fact that after blocking VK, their personal information would be in public access, and to avoid this, they need to copy this message to their wall.

Accidents in VK data centers and regular failures

Rumors about the impending closure of VK were significantly fueled by a large-scale failure on the social network that occurred at the beginning of this week and lasted for several hours. But it is worth noting that VKontakte, like any other resource, is at risk of becoming unavailable for a number of technical reasons.

In general, in the history of VK there are several major operational failures. One of the most notable occurred on July 25, 2010: the site remained inaccessible for more than four hours due to a power outage in the data center. Another failure occurred on July 27, 2014: then, as a result of an accident in one of the data centers, the site was also unavailable to users.

On August 4, 2015, the VKontakte website remained inaccessible for more than two hours. According to the company's press service, the cause of the problem was a physical break in the cable connecting the data centers. It was later reported that the cause of the failure was “a fatal combination of circumstances.” Increasing cases of VKontakte inaccessibility led to the popularization of the hashtag #vkzhivi on Twitter.

Is it all Pavel Durov's fault?

In addition to the hashtag, the opinion spread among users that regular disruptions began exactly after Pavel Durov left the company. On April 1, 2014, on his VKontakte page, Durov announced that he was leaving the post of general director of the company.

In his appeal, the creator of the social network argued that in 2013, his freedom of action as CEO of VKontakte was greatly reduced. He complained that the principles underlying the social network had become increasingly difficult to defend and that formal positions in the current conditions were of no interest to him. Experts are sure that in this way Durov hinted at serious pressure from the security forces demanding the closure of opposition groups “VK”, censorship and access to personal data of users.

Durov sold his shares to the famous media manager and former CEO of MegaFon Ivan Tavrin, and the entire social network became the property of Mail.Ru Group.

The opinion spread among users that regular disruptions began exactly after Pavel Durov left the company. Photo aif.by

Not the first “closure” in the 10 years of the social network’s existence

The upcoming “closure” of VKontakte will not be the first and certainly not the last in the history of the social network. In 2009, the resource was supposed to be closed by a court decision; in March 2012, Pavel Durov himself allegedly stated that “his brainchild will stop working because managing the site has become too difficult.”

In the vastness of VK there is even a thematic group called “Maybe it’s true, maybe not... VKontakte will be closed,” in which, once a year or six months, panic messages appear that the social network will be closed.

A breeding ground for fakes

VKontakte is a fairly large-scale hotbed of fake news, not only about its closure. As with any social network, fictitious stories of varying degrees are disseminated through VK, which, sometimes without prior verification, end up in the media and are perceived by the population as verified facts.

Similar cases are periodically encountered in the Tatarstan press: just last year, a local publication disseminated the news that during a fire at one of the industrial facilities of the Republic of Tatarstan, a huge piece of concrete ceiling flew from an explosion towards a correctional colony and, when falling, demolished a clock tower with a machine gunner, broke through the fence and the restricted area, and the prisoners allegedly ran away in all directions.

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The head of the press service of the social network VKontakte, Vladislav Tsyplukhin, said that rumors about the closure of this resource are unfounded. “This is all nonsense,” he added. On his VKontakte page, Tsyplukhin also noted that “some idiotic” rumor was born, which had to be refuted. The source of this data remains unknown, but recently a rumor about the closure of VKontakte again spread across the media and blogs. It is reported that the social network will be closed, and a specific date is indicated - March 15. The authorities will close VKontakte due to the refusal of its administration to close opposition groups: we have already written How did the management of VKontakte respond to such a proposal from the FSB? .

In addition, recently the founder of the social network "VKontakte" Pavel Durov posted on his microblog Twitter a summons from the prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg, where he was ordered to come to testify about the opposition groups "VKontakte", but he could not appear because he did not have time to read . Soon after this, he sent a letter to the editors of Lenta explaining his attitude to the situation.

There, Durov, in particular, indicated that if the service wants to preserve the domestic Internet industry, then requests to block the opposition are not applicable, including since this means giving a head start to competitors, however, he is not going to become an “icon of liberalism” and considers “talks about voting , elections, rallies and civic position<...>form of mass entertainment, along with discussing football matches and playing Happy Farmer."

Perhaps the panic began after rumors appeared that a new bill has been prepared in Russia obliging the blocking of sites (sites that “promote the use, production, sale of narcotic drugs” and “extremist materials” will also be included in the unified database of Internet threats) upon request regulatory authorities.

The Safe Internet League, together with businesses and officials, has prepared a bill obliging operators to block sites with illegal content. The project pursues a good goal - the fight against child pornography, but can lead to the emergence of full-fledged Internet censorship.

However, the bill deals not only with sites with child porn - sites that “promote the use, production, sale of narcotic drugs” and “extremist materials” will also be included in the unified database of Internet threats. Operators will be required to block such sites “based on the decision federal body, which carries out supervisory functions in the field of communications regarding the inclusion of the site in a unified database of Internet threats, that is, Roskomnadzor.

The league is starting its fight against child porn with Yandex. The search engine refuses to remove relevant images and links from the search results, Davydov explains: “We contacted Yandex with a request to filter such content, but the company refused, citing the fact that there is no corresponding law in Russia.”

We managed to come to an agreement with the search engine, but the social network "In contact with" itself has undertaken to regularly clean the content, and Mail.ru pages are moderated by special people.

They appeared in Krasnodar and quickly spread through specific circles. The story is this: elections to the State Duma took place and one beloved party did not like the way the “fair” elections were covered on social networks. On Channel One they tell one thing, but on VKontakte they honestly write about cases of arbitrariness.

Is it true that VKontakte will be closed?

Well, work has begun to suppress unnecessary activity. Under the pretext of fighting piracy, they will first close audio recordings, then they will take away videos, then they will begin to block groups and public pages under the pretext of fighting extremism and child suicide. By the fall of 2017, there will be little left of VK. The final closure of VKontakte should take place before the presidential elections, that is, by 2018.

Experts reacted to the news with skepticism. The fact is that Pavel Durov, with whom the special services were unable to reach an agreement on closing down opposition groups, left the company a long time ago and now VKontakte is controlled by a pro-government oligarch, so there is no way - everything will be blocked quickly and quietly. Secondly, there are many more VKontakte users than citizens going to the polls, and the closure of the social network could result in truly massive discontent.

VK will be closed for Ukrainians too

Ukrainian authorities believe that the Russian social network VKontakte threatens the country's security. The arguments are simple and logical: Ukrainians post dossiers on themselves, and they are stored on the territory of another state, which the Ukrainian authorities consider hostile. Do you need to solve the problem? Necessary! VKontakte will be closed in Ukraine. Sooner or later, but it will happen.

Is it true that VKontakte will be closed on Monday?

No it is not true. The blow will be struck at the most unexpected and inopportune moment, when the contactees are sleeping peacefully. We woke up, and lo and behold: VKontakte is just like that. Where should I post my shitty photos? Where can I write all the nonsense that Kontaktik has been filling with for many years? Can you imagine the drama? The heart of a contactee may not be able to stand it.

VKontakte has already been closed in Ukraine

On April 28, 2017, a decision was made by the National Security and Defense Council to block VKontakte on the territory of Ukraine. Poroshenko signed the decree. The document prescribes blocking access to VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Mail.Ru and Yandex. Thus, Ukrainian VKontakteers are going through the woods.

Secrets of VKontakte

A selection of interesting facts about your favorite social network:

Did you know that there are some but none of them give a 100% guarantee? VKontakte is invincible!
Every year it becomes more and more difficult Why do you think? The answer will surprise you.
Did you know that it is only thanks to this that the social network pleases us with stable work and high performance. If VKontakte servers were on Windows, then the social network would have been polluted with viruses long ago and would have crashed every other day.
Experts tried
The most popular video for adults on VKontakte is from Maria Evdokimova.
At her aunt's, She describes the torment she had to go through before the stupid VK admins restored her access. Shock!
What happens if you guess the password for someone else’s VKontakte page and log in? They will immediately solder 2 articles of the Criminal Code and give you a two-room coin.

Users of social networks (Vkontakte, Facebook) actively post the so-called. "privacy notice" to supposedly be protected by copyright law. In this regard, I am perplexed and have questions: without this message, will the laws not apply to everyone? And secondly: before using, say, someone’s photo, will editors of news sites really spend days scrolling through a network user’s news feed to find that very “privacy notice”? It's nonsense!

After I doubted the correctness of this notification, I found a fresh one on the Internet. Having analyzed the communique, he comes to the conclusion that “The considered “privacy notice” is an illiterate set of proposals that are poorly related to the real state of affairs. In fact, the rights and obligations of the user, the procedure for using personal data and copyrighted objects are regulated, first of all, by international standards, the national legislation of each specific country and then directly by agreements (with users), full and unconditional acceptance of the terms of which is necessary for the possibility of using the services popular social networks. Posting such a “privacy notice” does not change or terminate the user agreement.”

"Privacy Notice" on latest version distribute the following content:

« Due to the fact that the old VK program is being deleted starting Monday, I will leave this entry so that my photos, correspondence, etc. do not spread across the Internet.
In response to the new VKontakte policy, I hereby declare that all my personal data, photographs, drawings, correspondence, etc. are subject to my copyright (according to the Berne Convention). For commercial use of all above-mentioned copyrights, my written permission is required on a case-by-case basis.
VKontakte is now a public company. That is why all users of this social network are recommended to place such a “privacy notice” on their pages, otherwise (if the notice is not published on the page at least once), you automatically authorize any use of data from your page, your photos and information published on messages on the wall of your page.
Anyone who reads this text can copy it to their wall on VKontakte. You will then be protected by copyright laws. This communique notifies VKontakte that disclosure, copying, dissemination of my personal information or any other illegal actions in relation to my profile on the social network is prohibited».

You won’t believe it, friends, but over the past week, two people asked me the same, in my opinion, strange question.
It was about a post that had been circulating for a long time, beginning with the words: “Starting Monday, the VK program will be deleted, I will leave this post so that my photos, correspondence, etc. do not spread across the Internet...”, etc.
The question was: does it work? Is it necessary to make such public statements?

To make it clear to everyone what I’m talking about, I’m posting the text of this entry in its entirety, and below I’ll tell you what it really is.

« Since the old VK program is being removed from Monday, I will leave this entry so that my photos, correspondence, etc. do not spread across the Internet.
In response to the new VKontakte policy, I hereby declare that all my personal data, photographs, drawings, correspondence, etc. are subject to my copyright (according to the Berne Convention). For commercial use of all above-mentioned copyrights, my written permission is required on a case-by-case basis.
VKontakte is now a public company. That is why all users of this social network are recommended to place such a “privacy notice” on their pages, otherwise (if the notice is not published on the page at least once), you automatically authorize any use of data from your page, your photos and information published on messages on the wall of your page.
Anyone who reads this text can copy it to their wall on VKontakte. You will then be protected by copyright laws. This communique notifies VKontakte that disclosure, copying, dissemination of my personal information or any other illegal actions in relation to my profile on the social network is strictly prohibited.»

This post has been circulating on social media for over a year. I’ll say right away that this is all complete nonsense.
Such publications have no legal force (as well as common sense). By the way, the origin of this “duck” has already been investigated and on some forum it is indicated that this was done at one time to promote the profile of one of the unscrupulous users.
As for the legal part, it is immediately clear that the information was compiled with the expectation that the population is illiterate in matters of copyright. I'll explain why:

The Berne Convention (the full name of the document is “Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works”) is indeed still in force and is the fundamental international legal act in the field of copyright protection, but it was signed in 1886 (19th century). The truth was later revised in 1979. As you already understand, there are no relations related to personal data and especially to electronic correspondence