The Internet across the world
Recently, H.R.2271 was considered before Congress. This bill will promote freedom on the internet by first encouraging businesses not to cooperate with foreign governments to enact censorship on the internet. Another provision of the bill is that it asks the President of the United States to seek agreements with other countries to safeguard internet freedom.
This bill is well advised because it will do much to promote the free expression of ideas. The internet is the medium used by Politivote to accomplish our goal of simplifying democracy and making it more accessible to every citizen in this nation. Our democracy was founded on the principles of self-government. In order to have self-government, it is essential to have freedom of speech. Without this crucial freedom, self-government is dead. Of all the mediums used in this society, the internet does the most to promote free speech. The reason is that anyone can put anything on the internet. Unlike TV and radio, you don’t have to get your own show. There is no one to screen ideas or sensor them. Anything can be put on the net where it can be read by the general public and we can decide for ourselves whether or not we want to accept it as fact. This gives us as consumers of information the opportunity and responsibility to exercise our judgment in what information we choose to consume. No one will screen it for us. In using the internet, we have the sole responsibility to make sure that which we consume will benefit us. This is the main reason that I support this bill. The bill promotes an environment in which the citizen has a wealth of information available to them, and the citizen decides on the information he or she will use or discard. The freedom of access to ideas and information is the essence of self-government.
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