Word of Mouth

We watched the Internet produce unimaginable beauty such as this 185 online voice choir.

But the exact thing that the Internet thrives on is also its weakness.

Anyone can spread ideas about anything. People can claim expertise or even worse, authenticity. Indeed, we can rarely be sure who is sitting on the other side of our monitors, and know even less about their intentions and affiliations.

Apart from the more obvious topics such as identity theft or never trusting what one reads online, there s a more disturbing fact of using social media as a new form of censorship.  Counter-intuitive, yes I know. But it has been done.

Please take the time to watch this video. Internet does not always bring freedom of expression. Similar to greenwashing, the availability of information and easy of access enabled by the world wide web may just have given us too much confidence in it. Here’s how Russia and China have both used the trust people have in bloggers and online influencers to silence a curious population.