Decriminalization Of Internet

From the ancient time, developing new ways to share information was one of the priorities. Even today, we spend a lot of time on the modern ways to get news, such as social networks and internet magazines. In fact, in the past 10 years, as one of the largest social networks, Facebook members have increased from 1 million in 2004 to 1.15 billion today. The average American spends 16 minutes of every hour on a social media networks. All of the old technologies to spread mass media are under the control of governments. The situation has radically changed with the advent of Internet in our lives. The first prototype of the Internet was created in 1969 with the name of ARPANET, or the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. Originally funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, ARPANET used packet switching invented by Donald Davies in the late 1960’s to allow multiple computers to communicate on a single network. In 1973, Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn wrote the specifications for Transmission Control Protocol we use to this day. Some people consider that the government already controls the internet media because, in 2014, the United States was added to "Enemies of the Internet" list by Reporters Without Borders, a list of countries with the highest level of Internet surveillance and censorship. …show more content…
Most of the time, people believe blindly without making a provable research. This fact brings about that people can be easily cheated by other people. For instance, In 2013, hackers took control of the expense Associated Press Twitter and falsely claimed that the president suffered a consequence of explosions in the White House. After all only a few minutes he was already quoted more than 3,000 times before Twitter took account offline. This was immediately confirmed that the news is not true, but the tweet was up long enough to shatter the the