Censorship and democracy....yet another thing I didn't think of. But wow. Censorship could (to a certain extent put holes in democracy). In my previous blog I was saying how the internet in particular plays an important part in democracy as it provides so many ways for 'citizen to citizen' communication.
Censorship in regards to the internet would greatly damage this ease of communication and therefore have a significant role in damaging democracy. Especially if 10000 in every 1 million sites are going to be wrongfully shut down. I'm not saying that censorhip will destroy democracy but it definitely has a significant role in its being. If the clean feed was to go ahead I think that 'citizen to citizen' communication will greatly decrease, leaving a wide hole in democracy as their will be a world of silence where there once were voices, ideas and opinions.
On the whole censorship and democracy don't really go well together, one can't really exist with the other when it comes to the internet.
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