As\u00a0expected<\/a>, the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum was the hottest anti-globalist multipolar traditional RETVRN values conference of 2024\u2014possibly of all-time.<\/p>\n The unipolar world suffered non-stop humiliations during this mind-blowing freedom event. For example, Moscow Region governor Andrei Vorobyov made an incredible\u00a0BRICS announcement<\/a>\u00a0during a titillating panel discussion about the joys of biometrics, causing the dollar to lose 50% of its value against the\u00a0gold-backed<\/a>\u00a0ruble:<\/p>\n Biometrics is a tool that gives people better quality and more convenience in certain procedures, keeping them neat and tidy. You don\u2019t need any papers or passports\u2014that will all be in the past. Resisting it, in my opinion, is absurd.<\/strong><\/p>\n The governor of Russia\u2019s second-most-populated region, explaining the inevitable convenience of biometrics\u2014which will replace archaic \u201cpapers\u201d and \u201cpassports\u201d.<\/p>\n Nothing is being hidden. They\u2019re speaking very frankly. It\u2019s all out there, in the open.<\/p>\n There is even a\u00a0helpful \u201crecap\u201d<\/a>\u00a0of the panel discussion published by SPIEF. Behold the \u201chighlights\u201d:<\/p>\n \u201cI am for biometrics \u2026 Everything I do is based on biometrics, everything is based on fingerprints, because I\u2019m took lazy to carry cards with me and it\u2019s much more convenient to just [login\/pass\/go] through my face,\u201d <\/em>pontificated an expert panelist.<\/p>\n Was the BRICS Multipolar Happy Order incapable of finding a single panelist who had reservations about turning eyeballs into IDs? Igor Ashmanov, a member of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, had to shout his objections from the bleachers because they wouldn\u2019t let his dirty anti-biometric ideas onstage:<\/p>\n Friend of the blog Simplicius<\/a> posted a Twitter-summary <\/a>of Igor\u2019s very rude unipolar objections to biometrics:<\/p>\n \u201cYes, but Russians like biometrics, the most convenient of all forms for identification, which will replace \u2018papers\u2019 and \u2018passports\u2019,\u201d you might be saying to yourself for some weird and tragic reason.<\/p>\n Take the wheel,\u00a0nakanune.ru<\/a>:<\/p>\n People in Russia are narrow-minded and have not yet realized how beautiful, convenient and progressive biometrics are. Therefore, whether they want it or not, the authorities will introduce it wherever possible. Approximately the same reasoning (without these words, but with this meaning) was heard at SPIEF in the section devoted to biometrics.<\/strong>\u00a0Nakanune.RU\u00a0<\/strong>provides characteristic statements about the attitude of business towards people.<\/p>\n At first, the presenter of the Russia 24 channel, Maria Kudryavtseva,<\/strong>\u00a0advertised biometrics, showing how she enters the\u00a0Unified Biometric System<\/a>\u00a0using her face and even the greeting \u201cHello, Maria!\u201d appears there, which she enthusiastically shows to the audience.<\/p>\n At the same time, there was a feeling of a white gentleman showing \u201cdigital beads\u201d to the local natives. And the whole \u201cdiscussion\u201d came down to one thing\u2014intrusive advertising.\u00a0It is characteristic that the governor of the Moscow region Andrei Vorobyov, who is a public servant, but showed himself to be a business lobbyist, was also involved in this.<\/strong><\/p>\n As with\u00a0artificial intelligence in healthcare<\/a>\u00a0, the panel included only proponents of biometrics. Those who might object were simply not invited.\u00a0Those present were mainly engaged in advertising. Old people do not understand the digital world, but young people were already born with a gadget in their hand, they are very flexible, progressive, digital. They understand how convenient, cool and fast it is<\/strong>. In general, the conversation became very revealing in its vacuity and disregard for the position of citizens.<\/p>\n The first question to the speakers was provocative: is society ready to use biometrics? That is, don\u2019t people want it, does the country need it, not what it will give, not what the risks are\u2014but is society ready, as if the issue has been fundamentally resolved. Which is obscene. Let us recall that according to a 2023\u00a0survey , a third of Russians have a positive attitude towards taking biometrics, but almost half are opposed\u201448%.<\/a><\/p>\n [\u2026]<\/p>\n Vorobiev spoke as if he had gone back in time a hundred years ago and was telling backward people of the past about the wonders of the technology of the future. Here are just a few quotes.<\/p>\n \u201cYou don\u2019t need a paper or a passport, all this will be a thing of the past, it\u2019s absurd to resist it. We all already use biometrics, including children at school\u2026 It\u2019s convenient, you don\u2019t need to twist anything, you just look and that\u2019s it,\u201d said Vorobiev. [\u2026]<\/strong><\/p>\n It is characteristic that one of the main experts in the field of artificial intelligence in the country, a member of the Human Rights Council, Igor Ashmanov, was not invited to the section, who was forced to make remarks from the audience several times, and the section participants politely drew attention to the fact that someone might disagree. So, when Lebedev said that all people are for biometrics, he objected that this was not true. And when they started talking about different points of view, he very briefly but accurately described what was happening.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cYou haven\u2019t invited anyone to the presidium, you\u2019re all blowing the same tune! As a member of the Presidential Human Rights Council, I hear completely obscene advertising, and nothing more!\u201d said Ashmanov.<\/strong><\/p>\n What\u2019s wrong with this freak?<\/p>\n https:\/\/edwardslavsquat.substack.com\/p\/safe-convenient-and-for-your-protection<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Riley Waggaman<\/strong> is an American writer and journalist who has lived in Russia for close to a decade. He has contributed to many websites, including Anti-Empire, Russian Faith, Brownstone Institute, Unlimited Hangout, and Geopolitics & Empire. He worked for Press TV, Russia Insider, and RT before going solo. You can subscribe to his Substack here<\/a>, or follow him on twitter<\/a> or Telegram<\/a>.<\/p>\n Support Off-Guardian:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/riley-biometrics-june-10-quote-800x254-1.png\")
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