Thursday, January 19, 2012

Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge

“Ultimately,a right step in the wrong direction.”

Firstly,let’s not get emotional. There are many downsides to a World with free knowledge,for instance,infringement of intellectual property rights. Random Facebook users have been known to create pages like ‘Hotties of Pakistan’ with photographs only your friends were supposed to have access to and comments that whore girls down. Had it been for acts like SOPA and PIPA that mess could’ve been avoided (#JustSaying). So there definitely are many downsides to less monitoring which include hate-speech,racism,plain lying to misguide the public on the internet. These problems’ roots lie in ‘free’ distribution of knowledge. Fact:accountability has become a necessity.

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