discussing on social networks
They discuss these days, even in the Parliament of
the United States, about the negative effects of some "social
networks" like Twitter, Facebook and others. I was thinking earlier that
Internet is, perhaps, the highest form of democracy ever created. Anyone can
pick up information; anyone can enter data. Still I think that could be, if ...
If all people would be civilized, i.e. would respect each other and everyone
would know his place in society, not only his interests. I appreciated, for
example, the explosive development of Encyclopaedia Wikipedia thanks to the
voluntary contribution of thousands of users. And not only Wikipedia! Google
has become a formidable searching engine. It seems, however, that too much
democracy fails. If one or two years ago it was easily to get the information
that you need, today, the list of search results is polluted with the websites
of companies that are advertising, and even with the blogs of children. If the
law would forbid their access, they will protest that law limits their
democratic rights. And even if the ban were imposed upon it, they will find
ways to continue their infiltrations, because they know how to avoid the law.
The effect will be the creation by specialists of some separate communication
networks, possibly with other technologies, with access limited to members. In
this case, people will accuse the society being elitist, non-democratic, and
will be right, without noticing that the authors of the transformation are
themselves.
