Essay On Code Vs. Non-Neutrality

In the past 20 years, technology has changed the way we live. The technology we rely on the most, such as sites, and electronic devices like smart phone use code. There has been an ongoing discussion on whether the code should be in an open form or a closed form. In other words value neutrality of code vs. non-neutrality. The reality however is that code cannot be value neutral.
There are several examples, which show that codes are not value neutral. Let us take an example of a site, “Yahoo.com” when establishing itself in China. To allow for the operation of this website, the Chinese government formed rules to develop the code, so that the site would report the suspicious activities of its users, when it threatened the interest of the Chinese government. Here we found that this program supported the rules of the Chinese institution, however, it threatened the privacy of …show more content…
A social networking sites like Facebook is a larger organization, where they are bound by several rules and regulations, including censorship. The development of sites like Diaspora enables users to enjoy the benefit of social networks without the heavy hands of censorship. This led to a discussion such that there is a power struggle between the states and the Internet communities. In other words state is trying to control the content in the Internet whereas public are finding several means to evade the filtering system developed by the state. In my view Internet community should be given more freedom. However, we should also take into account that when granting freedom some form of surveillance is also needed, as it helps to track down terrorists and criminals. A censorship the suppression of speech, public communication or other information, which may be considered objectionable. Censorship in one way is against the internet value