After our discussion in class on thursday, bouncing research paper ideas around, I became really intrigued by the idea of censorship on the internet.
My group discussed the different types of power and control within the hierarchies of the internet and how a moderator has control over the server information. The moderator can see all of the information and has dominion over what others see.
I've been looking for different articles about moderators and controlling what others are able to write and the idea of censorship. I am really interested in how this works in particular on Facebook and have found a few discussion posts about how Facebook prevents people from fully disclosing their opinions and censors their writing.
Possible Research Question:
Does Facebook as a writing space really protect our freedoms of speech if there is a moderator who can edit whatever we post?
1. Who controls posts?
ReplyDelete2. Are freedoms protected on sites? Depending on country. What are our freedoms online?
3. Who should be protected?
Well a moderator would be the one who is controlling what is posted on sites but who exactly is the moderator on these sites and why do they get to be the sole one in charge of what is said? Does the government play any part in this overall, in our freedom of speech? Do we even have a freedom of speech on the internet? What one person says may effect another person negatively should we be able to voice our opinion no matter what or should there be a set limits to what is said? Are the features on Facebook like reporting a user for inappropriate content necessary? What would the internet look like if there weren’t moderators controlling what people say on their sites? What if there wasn’t a delete option and everything written was public right away? Every country has different rules and ideas and the United States seems to be the most open to expression yet we still have our limits to what we can say how has the internet impacted what people are saying and how often they are saying it? Who exactly needs to be protected anyway because if one person is being protected another person is being censored. Whose freedoms are we protecting and is this done in a hierarchal way? I’ve never really thought about this idea of censorship on sites like Facebook before but it is true there is one person in charge of the entire domain and they control whatever I write and can do with it whatever they want. Is that fair? I am not sure since they are the ones who created the site for me to use in the first place and I am the one who accepted using the site with full knowledge they would have access to whatever I wrote. Or did I even realize they would have that much access when I began using their writing domain? What exactly are the freedoms we are granted on the internet on these different social networking sites and writing spaces? What are our current freedoms, what should they be, and are we given the same ones in our constitution? Considering the internet is global and other countries have different laws and practices and different definitions of the word freedom, what exactly does freedom look like on the World Wide Web?