Who Controls the Information Space and Why
NOVANEWS
By Jean Perier – New Eastern Outlook
Recently behind-the-scenes rules and restrictions being used by Facebook have fallen into the hands of Guardian reporters. According to their report, moderators employed by the tech giant are entitled to decide what exactly the 2 billion users of this social network can or cannot publish on their pages. This report has provoked a massive discussion on the absence of any ethical norms that could prevent the tech giant from exercising censorship, along with disputes about the determination of US intelligence agencies to spy on their citizens in violation of the USA Freedom Act.
The fact that the US created the Internet as a tool of exercising control over information space, as a convenient environment for espionage, collecting dirty facts an...
