Thursday, June 16, 2022

Freedom of speech on social networks

 *This essay is published as a part of the process of creating an electronic platform which among other things will be protecting its users from fake news. (greek below)


                The creation of the internet and the development of technologies that allow an increasingly faster and multifaceted communication from distance, have made the need to find protocols which will guarantee their harmonic and beneficial use more and more necessary. How we deal with freedom of speech on the internet is also an important question among others. The change of the communication context demands for new arrangements. If, for example, communication happens live at a square or at a bar, there are some characteristics as far as how, when and to whom we talk, which do not apply to distant, usually impersonal, anonymous and asynchronous communication. This essay processes freedom of speech on the internet and specifically on social networks.