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Free Internet, Free Me

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Free flow of information over a medium is not new scene for us now and there has been continuous effort to censor such of free flow information. Democratic states has been facing resistance over a issue of censoring information as it’s against democratic values of freedom of expressions and speech. Bills like SOPA and PIPA in America is not only their national concern but to me its major global concern. Internet has proven itself as fastest growing and most penetrated medium of information across the globe. This medium has greater impact than any other mediums because it directly connects to masses and enables sharing of text, images and videos over commonly shared platforms using pre decided protocols.   Every country has its own legislations for regulating medium of information (media), but internet is less regulated media in democratic world because it promotes democratic values. Now a day, great area of conflict is observed between political interests of governments

Society of Liars

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Working on Facebook to understand gender, religion, relations, information, communication etc. is getting more and more interesting to me now a days. Massive flow of information on Facebook is exceeding the flow of information through mailing but in reality information which is flowing on home pages of our Facebook is not at all required to contribute in knowledge.  People may argue that its entertainment and spreading good things among social network but again it is leading fake showoff of emotional attachments and leads to nothing in long run. Yesterday, interesting line stuck in mind which was posted on Facebook (there is something on my mind :D ), it was-  Facebook is society of liars , at first sight it seem funny to me but while thinking on word society a question came up in my mind, does society of liars in reality exists ? And the answer my mind gave was YES, society of liars exists. Actually, every human whom we can see is liar in some sense or other. Lies are