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Free Speech On The Internet Is A Weapon Much More Powerful Than Your Censorship Gun

Free Speech On The Internet Is A Weapon Much More Powerful Than Your Censorship Gun

Introduction

Like any technology, the Internet is a cultural creation: it reflects the principles and values ??of its inventors, who were also its first users and experimenters. Moreover, being an interactive communication technology with strong feedback capabilities, the Internet uses are reflected in its development as a network and the type of emerging technology applications. Libertarian values ??of those who created and developed the Internet, namely, computerized academic researchers, hackers, community networks and countercultural entrepreneurs in the new economy, led to an open architecture and difficult to control. At the same time, when the company realized the extraordinary capacity that Internet represents the values ??embodied in the net spread in the whole of social life, particularly among younger generations. Internet and liberty became synonymous for many people worldwide.

Faced with such technological and cultural change, those in power to control information throughout the story, i.e., the states and churches, reacted with concern and in non-democracies, with hostility, trying to restore administrative control of the expression and communication. But the statist project implementation on the Internet is serious difficulty. In democratic countries, the Internet has established itself as an essential instrument of expression, information and horizontal communication between citizens and get the constitutional and judicial protection of liberties. In all countries except in theocracies, the economic and technological Internet excludes people can ignore or relegate its widespread use in society. Moreover, the ideology of progress through technology makes the Internet promoting value for legitimizing governments that base their strategy on economic development within the framework of globalization. Hence, the complicated political lace exists between freedom and control by the states.

Meanwhile, Internet users tend to assert their individual rights out of context, positioning itself as a leading technology company released computer-illiterate. Moreover, entrepreneurs reach employers through accelerated commercialization of the Internet, a process that often betray its libertarian principles, for example, by sacrificing the privacy of its customers or the technical support and information to control devices and supervision of the Administration. Citizens in general tend to do a little instrumental and ideological use of the Internet: use it for what serves you and consider Internet freedom as a fundamental issue when it has long been accustomed to political control and its main trading source of information: television. But that attitude may change as society goes to settle in the first generation growing up with the Internet. As the widespread Internet usage information and knowledge on critical social importance of control over the Internet, it may be that the battle for freedom in the network, including the economic freedom of access to the network, overflowing the confines of the current enlightened elite.

Discussion

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