The VK program is being deleted. Strange VKontakte post

22.08.2019 News

To the question Is it true that VKontakte will be deleted on Monday? given by the author Yoabinochka ******* the best answer is Not

Answer from throw[guru]
Of course!

Answer from Neurologist[guru]
They will not delete how many times they said !! ! Where is infa from?

Answer from nyashka shy[newbie]
WHAT?

Answer from Adaptability[guru]
I wish) but no

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

Answer from Chilly Willy[guru]
yes, as well as classmates, mail ru and a tweeter with facebook (God, they just don’t come up with anything).

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

Answer from Zhenya Krivorot[guru]
Kiselev taught you to compose such nonsense?

Answer from Amir Tatlyev[newbie]
where you can find out. infu?

Answer from Xenia 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, the Vkontakte office was searched, while the press secretary stated that Durov was walking and had no car.
Many are sure that the VKontakte social network will not cease to exist, since it is very popular in Russia and abroad. It was created by analogy with 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, which is more than 190 million people. Daily traffic to the site 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 the domain name of the international format - vk.com. The owner of the network is VKontakte LLC, in which Vyacheslav and Mikhail Mirilashvili owned most of the shares (which is about 40%).
The investment fund United Capital Partners (UCP) in April acquired a 48% stake in VKontakte, Durov's partners in its creation, the Mirilashvili family. Pavel Durov is the CEO 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 is nothing to rage 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 it!

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

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

Answer from Yofya Raube[newbie]
And now I declare: these are all rumors!!

Answer from Dasha Blinkova[newbie]
Is it true that VKontakte will be closed soon?
Not true. We don't even think about closing. Sometimes the site begins to spread various ridiculous rumors about the suspension or some kind of radical change in our work, which have nothing to do with reality.
A similar story is described in the official Support team community.

And use this social network. Believe it or not, but over the past week, two people have asked me the same strange, in my opinion, question.
It was about an entry that had been circulating on VKontakte for a long time, beginning with the words: “The VK program has been deleted since Monday, I will leave this entry so that my photos, correspondence, etc. do not scatter over the Internet ...”, etc.
The question was: does it work? Should such public statements be made?

To make it clear to everyone what it is about, I am posting the text of this entry in its entirety, and below I will tell you what it is all the same.

« Since the old VK program is being deleted from Monday, I will leave this entry so that my photos, correspondence, etc. do not scatter over the Internet.
In response to the new VKontakte policy, I hereby declare that all of my personal data, photographs, drawings, correspondence, and so on are subject to my copyright (under the Berne Convention). For commercial use of all the above copyrighted items, my written permission is required in each case.
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 allow 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 on VKontakte. After that, you will be protected by copyright laws. This communique informs VKontakte that the disclosure, copying, distribution of my personal information or any other illegal actions in relation to my profile on the social network is strictly prohibited.»

Such a record has been circulating on the social network VKontakte for more than a year. Let me tell you right now, this is all 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 is compiled with the expectation of the illiteracy of the population in matters of copyright. I'll explain why:

The Berne Convention (the full name of the document is the “Bern Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works”) is still valid and is the fundamental international legal act in the field of copyright protection, but it was signed in 1886 (XIX century). The truth was later revised in 1979. As you already understood, it does not regulate any relationship related to personal data, and even more so with VKontakte electronic correspondence. This is the first blunder of the compilers of our strange record.

The second blunder is the statement that " if the notice is not published on the page at least once, you automatically allow any use of data from your page».

Any objects of copyright (photos, author's recordings, music, poetry, literary works) receive legal protection by virtue of their conscientious creation by the author. According to paragraph 4. st.1259 The Civil Code of the Russian Federation, for the emergence, exercise and protection of copyright (including for literary works), registration of the work or compliance with any other formalities is not required.

The absence of a copyright holder's prohibition on the use of objects is not considered consent (permission) - this is regulated by Article 1229 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation.

What you post on your page, such as photos of which you are the author, or your stories, is nothing more than bringing to the public knowledge - one of the ways you use a work to which you, as the copyright holder, have full rights in accordance with st.1270 Civil Code of the Russian Federation.
And finally, let me remind you that, just like objects of copyright, your personal data is also already protected without your participation. The procedure for using personal data is regulated federal law dated July 27, 2006 No. 152-FZ "On Personal Data".

The same applies to correspondence, which is guaranteed secrecy by Article 23 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, without any additional statements on your part.

So, friends, do not fall for stupid tricks and do not fill the tape and head with yourself and your friends with all sorts of nonsense. Better subscribe to useful news. I hope that each of you who have read this material, in order not to get into such stupid situations, will go

To make it clear to everyone what it is about, I am posting the text of this entry in its entirety, and below I will tell you what it is all the same.

The second blunder is the statement that " if the notice is not published on the page at least once, you automatically allow any use of data from your page».

Any objects of copyright (photos, author's recordings, music, poetry, literary works) receive legal protection by virtue of their conscientious creation by the author. According to paragraph 4. Article 1259 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, for the emergence, exercise and protection of copyright (including literary works), registration of the work or compliance with any other formalities is not required.

The absence of a copyright holder's prohibition on the use of objects is not considered consent (permission) - this is regulated by Article 1229 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation.

What you post on your page, for example, photos of which you are the author, or your stories, is nothing more than bringing to the public knowledge - one of the ways to use a work to which you, as the copyright holder, have every right in accordance with Art. 1270 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation.
And finally, let me remind you that, just like objects of copyright, your personal data is also already protected without your participation. The procedure for the use of personal data is regulated by the Federal Law of July 27, 2006 No. 152-FZ "On Personal Data".

The same applies to correspondence, which is guaranteed secrecy by Article 23 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, without any additional statements on your part.

Surely, many of the users of VKontakte have ever thought about what would happen if the social network ceased to exist. The main problem is that many users have a lot of personal information, friends, correspondence stored in their accounts. So, this weekend, users of the domestic social network were panic-stricken when the news appeared that VKontakte was closing, and the personal data of users would become public.

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

“From Monday, the VKontakte program will not be completely deleted! ((We have just a little bit left to sit on VKontakte! So, so that all your correspondence, and pictures, and photos do not disperse all over the Internet, throw this on your wall!”, - says the text of this message.

The message went viral on social media very quickly. Mass publications on social networks began with the hashtags #ReturnDurov #vk_live #VkNeBenet. 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 spread 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 assurances of the management, the prospect of the imminent closure of the social network scared the majority of users who use VKontakte not only for work, but also for storing important data for themselves. 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 took place on VKontakte just a couple of months ago.

Recently, my friends on the social network Vkontakte began to repost a very old "duck" which is already about a year old. It starts like this: “Because from Monday the old VK program 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 ...

Let me start with the full text of this post:

“The social network Vkontakte will be closed from next week, I will leave this entry so that my photos, correspondence, etc. do not scatter over the Internet.
In response to the new policy of VKontakte, I hereby declare that all of my personal data, photographs, drawings, correspondence, and so on are subject to my copyright (under the Berne Convention). For commercial use of all the above copyrighted items, my written permission is required in each case.

Everyone who reads this text can copy it to their wall on 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 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 since Monday, the old VK program is being deleted, I will leave this entry so that my photos, correspondence, etc. do not scatter over 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 data somehow miraculously scatters over 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 policy of VKontakte, I hereby declare that all of my personal data, photographs, drawings, correspondence, and so on are subject to my copyright (according to the Berne Convention). Any commercial use of any of the above copyrights requires my written permission in each case."

It would seem a very serious statement with a reference to such a document as the "Bern Convention". But even here, not everything is as fair as the author shows. The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is the title of this document, signed in the 19th century and revised in 1979. Naturally, this document has nothing to do with Vkontakte and the Internet as a whole (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 allow any use of data from your page, your photos and information published in messages on the wall of your page.

“Everyone who reads this text can copy it to their wall on 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 in relation to my profile on the social network is strictly prohibited.

But this paragraph of the message is just a lie, and not even covered up. And I'll tell you why. According to the legislation of the Russian Federation, the content created by the author is already protected by law and no additional actions are required to protect it (in our case, posting this message). Article 1259 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, clause 4 states: “For the emergence, exercise and protection of copyright, registration of a work or compliance with any other formalities is not required.”

Moreover, all user data is protected by the Federal Law of July 27, 2006 N 152-FZ "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 the language of the Internet: a duck.

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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 been a day of mourning for users of the popular Russian social network VKontakte (since the end of February, a message has been circulating on the resource about its imminent blocking), but the next 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 about the imminent closure of the resource has been “walking” on the VKontakte social network, and on the eve of publications with the same content, spammers were fasting at a rate of once a minute. In the post test, a specific closing date is indicated - 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 adviser to the President of the Russian Federation on the Internet).

Herman Klymenko has already commented on the situation to the press, saying that everyone openly laughs 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 in order to avoid this, they need to copy this message to their wall.

Accidents in VK data centers and regular failures

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

In general, in the history of "VK" there are several major failures in the work. One of the most notable occurred on July 25, 2010, when the site remained unavailable for more than four hours due to a power outage in the data center. Another failure took place 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 unavailable for more than two hours. According to the press service of the company, 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 confluence of a number of circumstances." Increasing cases of inaccessibility of VKontakte led to the popularization of the hashtag #vkzhivi on Twitter.

Is Pavel Durov to blame for everything?

In addition to the hashtag, the opinion spread among users that regular failures in work 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 CEO of the company.

In his appeal, the creator of the social network claimed that in 2013 his freedom of action as the CEO of VKontakte was greatly reduced. He complained that the principles underlying the social network had become increasingly difficult to uphold and formal positions in the current conditions were not interesting to him. Experts are sure that in this way Durov hinted at serious pressure from the security forces, demanding the closure of the VK opposition groups, censorship and access to users' personal data.

Durov sold his shares to the well-known media manager and former CEO of MegaFon Ivan Tavrin, and the entire social network was taken over by the Mail.Ru Group.

Among users, the opinion spread that regular failures in work began exactly after Pavel Durov left the company. Photo aif.by

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

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 to be closed by a court decision; in March 2012, Pavel Durov himself allegedly stated that "his offspring will stop working because it has become too difficult to manage the site."

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

Hotbed of fakes

VKontakte is a fairly large hotbed of fake news not only about its closure. As well as through any social network, fictional stories of varying degrees are distributed 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 spread the news that during a fire at one of the industrial facilities of the Republic of Tatarstan, a huge piece of concrete ceiling flew away from the explosion towards the penal colony and, when it fell, demolished the watchtower with a machine gunner, broke through the fence and the restricted area, and the prisoners allegedly fled wherever their eyes looked.

Lina Sarimova

The head of the press service of the social network "VKontakte" Vladislav Tsyplukhin said that the rumors about the closure of this resource are unfounded. "It's all nonsense," he added. On his VKontakte page, Tsyplukhin also noted that "some kind of idiotic" rumor was born, which had to be refuted. The source of these data remains unknown, but the other day the rumor about the closure of Vkontakte again spread through the media and blogs. It is reported that the social network will be closed, moreover, a specific date is indicated - March 15. The authorities will close VKontakte due to the refusal of its administration to close opposition groups: we already wrote, how the leadership of VKontakte responded to the FSB on such a proposal .

In addition, recently the founder of the social network "VKontakte" Pavel Durov posted on his Twitter microblog a summons from the prosecutor's office of St. . Shortly thereafter, he sent a letter to the Lenta editor explaining his attitude to the situation.

There, Durov, in particular, pointed out that if the service wants to preserve the domestic Internet industry, then requests to block the opposition are not applicable, including because it means giving odds to competitors, but he is not going to become an "icon of liberalism" and considers "talks about voting , elections, rallies and citizenship<...>form of mass entertainment, along with discussing football matches and playing Happy Farmer."

Perhaps the panic began after rumors appeared that a new bill was prepared in Russia obliging to block sites (sites “promoting the use, manufacture, 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 requiring operators to block sites with illegal content. The project pursues a good goal - the fight against child pornography, but may lead to the emergence of full-fledged Internet censorship.

However, the draft law is not only about sites with child porn - sites "promoting the use, manufacture, sale of narcotic drugs" and "extremist materials" will also be included in a single database of Internet threats. Operators will be required to block such sites “on the basis of a decision by the federal authority responsible for supervision in the field of communications to include the site in a single database of Internet threats, that is, Roskomnadzor.

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

It was possible to agree with the search engine, however, the social network "In contact with" she herself undertook to regularly clean the content, and the pages of Mail.ru are moderated by special people.

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

Is it true that Vkontakte will be closed?

Well, work has begun to curb unnecessary activity. Under the pretext of fighting piracy, audio recordings will be closed first, then videos will be taken away, then groups and public sites will be blocked under the pretext of fighting extremism and child suicide. By the fall of 2017, little will remain of VK. The final closure of Vkontakte should take place by 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 could not agree on the closure of opposition groups, left the company long ago and now Vkontakte is controlled by a pro-government oligarch, so no one - everything will be blocked quickly and quietly. Secondly, there are much more Vkontakte users than citizens who go to the polls, and the closure of the social network can really turn into mass discontent.

VK will be closed for Ukrainians

Ukrainian authorities believe that the Russian social network Vkontakte threatens the country's security. The arguments are simple and logical: Ukrainians spread dossiers about themselves, and they are stored on the territory of another state, which the Ukrainian authorities consider hostile. Need to solve a problem? Necessary! Vkontakte in Ukraine will be closed. 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 will sleep peacefully. Woke up, looking: and Vkontaktik bye-bye. Where do you post your shitty photos? Where to write all that nonsense that Kontaktik was filled with for many years? Can you imagine drama? The heart of a vkontakteer can not stand it.

Vkontakte has already been closed in Ukraine

On April 28, 2017, the National Security and Defense Council decided 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 go through the forest.

Secrets of Vkontakte

A selection of interesting facts about your favorite social network:

Did you know that there are about but none of them give a 100% guarantee? Vkontakte is invincible!
It gets harder every year. Why do you think? The answer will surprise you.
Did you know that only thanks to this, the social network pleases us with stable work and high performance. If the Vkontakte servers were on Windows, then the social network would have been polluted with viruses for a long time and would fall in a day.
The experts tried
The most popular adult video in Vkontakte is from Maria Evdokimova.
At the aunt's She describes what kind of agony she had to go through before the stupid VK admins restored her access. Shock!
What happens if you pick up a password for someone else's Vkontakte page and log in? They immediately solder 2 articles of the Criminal Code and give a kopeck piece.