Freedom_In_The_Internet_Age

Freedom In The Internet Age Freedom in the Internet Age The bill of rights protects our freedom and guards our rights to say, write, and ultimately share whatever we want without government interference and censorship. Censorship is the most dangerous action that a government can impose on a free population. In the aftermath of Napster, the recording industry has pushed the government to pass legislation that would inhibit our freedoms. No government should be allowed to tell their populations that they cannot say show or listen to whatever they want. It is a person’s own right to decide for himself or herself what they will or will not listen to, say, writes, or sees. Participants in peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing programs such as Kazaa or Freenet are staunch defenders of freedom of speech. P2P networks work by the use of software to allow end users (you and me) to be able to access and download other users shared files. Shared files are the files that an individual user has chosen to share with other users on a network. Kazaa is the most numerous of these programs with over ten million members in the U.S. and over four hundred thousand downloads every day. Freenet is the newest of government, freedom, been, p2p, industry, riaa, new, legislation, freenet, sales, bill, users, speech, networks, music, free, allow, without, whatever, sharing, share, say, recording, protect, police, listen, laws, information, hackers, file, computer, allowed, works, since, should, rights