Written By Lily Syafikah Mansor
Everyone in this world has their own freedom to voice out what they think. We cannot be jailed if we criticize someone. We have right to speak up. First Amendment is intended to protect the value of free speech from restrictions of government. People might believe that government is only a threat to free speech. It is undeniable that sometime government did restrict some speeches. However, the truth is government zoning the access which mean there is transparent and reason why we could not access on the web. In other hand, private companies might even more mean as they did filtered the speech that they don’t want and we even don’t know any transparent that prohibit us from access to the web. I think zoning is done correspond with what government thought good for the community and the good is at least we knew the reason we could not access compare to filtering.”The architecture of cyberspace is the real protector of speech",Lessig. For me, I agree with what Lessig tries to point out because even though the free speech is officially and legally protected under First Amendment but cyberspace is indirectly seem protected the value of free speech. This is because free speech is absolutely applies on cyberspace. It seems visualize what the free speech is. People could say anything that they want and voice out their opinion without worries that they will be sue or something. Nowadays, we could search and read a lot of sources in the cyberspace. Many people do blogging, like what I’m doing right now. I’m writing blog to speak up my opinion other than be asked by Prof. Am I will be sue if what I’m said might offense someone? Of course not because this is what the free speech is. Wikipedia basically is written by amateur that writing because they love to instead of do it because of money. Wikipedia and blog is broad base. There are no guarantees that the writing will be true 100% but there is guarantee on the process which is the collaboration process involved in working toward truth. This make free speech is valuable because we could exchange ideas with others.
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2 comments:
I think that Lily makes some great points about addressing the value of free speech. Living in the US it is not often that we think about the freedoms we enjoy here, but they are very important. One thing you stated that I thought was particularly interesting dealt with blogging. You said “There are no guarantees that the writing will be true 100% but there is guarantee on the process which is the collaboration process involved in working toward truth.” I think this is what makes blogging such a great thing, this “working toward truth” While a newspaper or magazine will present a story or issue written by one of their writers and that will be it, blogging is a process. If there is something wrong about the initial article people can come in and get it corrected. Take for example Wikipedia. When you look at a Wikipedia page and see that there is something on there that is not correct, you are able to go in and make changes to help make it right. This fact is the main reason why I believe blogging is going to become more and more important in the future.
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From reading above, I agree with Lily opinion. We cannot blame government threat free speech because what they did is actually right. According to Lessig, what government did was zoning the content that "builds into itself for its own limitation"(Lessig pg. 258). It means, a person who practice zoning promote by government does know what site will be block up. So, it allows free speech. So, people should focus on what private sector did that actually threat to free speech. Filtering is actually threatening a free speech. It is because we do not know what content is being blocked and make it into small scope of information. Like Lessig said "the PICS regime not only enables nontransparent filtering but, by producing a market in filtering technology, engenders filters for much more than Ginsberg speech"(Code pg. 257).
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