This debate in on a lot of mouth since the developpment of the Internet. Is that new world promoting democracy or is it another way to install tyranny ?
They are arguments for both :
We can surely say that the Internet is a way to create a real democracy because everybody can give their opinion, there is no boundaries everybody has the same field of expression. On Twitter for instance Obama has the same constraints that anyone ! That could be a embodument of an ideal democracy.
But on the other hand some people would say that it is also a perfect field for propaganda and censorship because people are still very gullible on that media comparing to TV or newspaper in front of which they are now very doubtful.
But the answer to that question is not that dichotomic of course, it has to be balanced.
Of course Internet is the perfect land for free speech but being able to express ourselves doesn't mean being heard and trusted by a lot of people. Actually only a few people are really that influent on the Internet, a king of leadership is being reproducted in there too.
But tyranny really ? I think that world is way too exagerated. It is a media that has influences and censorship (as we can see in China) but it is still a place where we can go where we want and decide which opinion we read and which one we give credit to.
So no total democracy but no such thing as tyranny.
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