Internet Freedom and Democracy

Internet Freedom and Democracy Recently plenty more(prenominal) aw are about sincere democracy because technological developments and profit help concourse who access the meshwork simultaneously. Especially profits has a great contribition. Internets most important two have gots which are pure information and easy accessibility are gift from network developers to general public. Some believes that this intervention is very helpful for humanity and some some others argues that internet will be a tool for average and malevolent people such(prenominal) as terrorists,racist or pedophiles.Democracys most well seen feature is being free as arsehole as possible. Person who lives in democratic country do-nothing do what s/he wants to do without abusing the other peoples rights,feelings and freedoms. Accordingly on this rendering , people can access to internet when they want. They can communicate with each other or channel-surf on the internet and no genius can stop users. I nternet is a new elbow room of promoting democracy. It is a new area that capable for keeping in touch with billions of people. It does not need to roost or it never dies. However this event depend on administrations and authorities attitude towards the internet.As you imagine that, internets simplicity creates powerful interaction. This interaction ability leads billions of peoples attention. This interaction power and divide of peoples attention may cause a handicap for authorities. Becouse of this great power States and Authorities want to control it. Thanks to the democracy, there is a obstacle for that. Our rights are saved by laws and governments can not inhibit our internet freedom. Let assume that all of the developing and developed countries are beindg governing with complete democracy.In this circumstance,a large amount of people can reach various imformation easily. Only one riff on the mouse opens a door to the rest of the world. Jamie Metzl describes the internet as a quick and audacious way of exchanging the information. It is a great invention that people may gain information very unfaltering and very easy. People can announce their voice and acquit their ideas. People may also express themselves without the internet but internet makes this process faster. Sharing ideas has bring about easier with internet. Because internet provides flow of informatin without any decadency or changes.For example (from Peter Brophy and Edward Helpins article), human rights organizations were challenging with authoritarian governments early 80s but later internet usage has started to grow and they have gained adventage from internet. They published their articles and annunced their activities freely. In Peter Brophy and Edward Helpins article, Amnesty International which is an organization that protects human rights all over the world. In their Indonesia campaign , they used the online communion becouse government could not making intervention to that area.Day by day Indonesian people have become more aware about their rights and resisted to governments human rights abuses. Briefly , internet provides democratic rights for people. With internets contribitions people can understand the democracy in fast and easy way. Internet is such a great invention that it is easiest way to foster freedom. There is no militaristic pressure, police stick, or torture for readings, songs and idea expressions. It means that there is no this kind of scary affects for being free. People know that they can read, listen or say what they want with internet.This is the main reason for internets touristedity. alone democratic countries have been allowing flow of information for many years. Except democratic and liberal countries citizens, people couldnt express themselves freely before the invention of the internet. For example in Turkey, in early 80s lots of author was imprisoned by military because of their ideologies and books. Also military was burn ing ideological books. as yet today Turkish citizens arent recognizing the complete freedom. However, it changed recently. Lately 90s internet has become popular and there was no limitation for it.That interval was the pure freedom for internet users. It is a fact that, hardly way for spread of an idea is communication. Frequency, power and speed of communication are directly proportional with diffusion of idea or information. A users idea could be effective on the other user. Different thoughts could become an ideology at the internet. For example a couple months ago Turkish government has started to applying safe-internet which is software for limiting the internet. Popular bloggers wrote articles about it and they raise awareness about this law.Firstly bloggers and a lot of users kick this issue on web but it didnt be effective. After that bloggers planned a real baulk at streets. They invited both internet users and civil public to strike this issue. Thousands of people res ponded this call and they protest that law because, government tried to abuse their internet freedom. However, some people argue that internet isnt kind of a tool that helpful for democratic developments. In dictatorships and non-democratic countries internet doesnt work properly while process of promoting the democracy.Censorship issue and authoritarian pressures prevent flow of information. Not only civil people use the internet. Governments have their own websites or blogs. Publics internet is being limited with uniform technology by governments. Civilian programmers call that the Censor ware. There are lots of ways for stoppage or limiting access to websites. Most well-known are Web filters which programmed by recounts programmers. Another one is blocking the website. Jonathan Strickland mentioned this issue in his article. For Strickland, Governments block access to the web pages they identify as undesirable.Undesirable means that the websites which criticizes the states id eology or contrary with governments activities. As a result, these actions cause a counter belief for internets democracy foster power. In conclusion, many people believe that internet is accelerating the freedom and democracy in most of the countries. A few people disagreeing with that but broadly speaking thought of internets contributions to democracy is positive. Two main features of this technology are helping people which are fast and easy and fast accessibility and not corrupted information.