Debate on Press Freedom on the Internet: Are we free to express what we want?
Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2024 6:48 am
Debate on Press Freedom on the Internet: Are we free to express what we want?
By Ipanema Communication , May 3
May 3, World Press Freedom Day , a day to celebrate the fundamental principles of press freedom , a perfect day to defend the rights of the media in disseminating any information of public interest.
World Press Freedom Day was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1993. According to a UNESCO article , “May 3 serves to remind governments of the need to respect their commitment to press freedom and is also a day of reflection among media professionals on issues related to press freedom and professional ethics.”
But are the media really free to say what they think? To spread what they want? And what about us?
Freedom of the press and expression: are we completely free?
Imagine that you have very valuable information of public interest, but you know that iran telegram data publishing it could harm a third party, but if you don't, you harm the rest of society. Your job is to inform, so in the end you decide to publish it, but the person or entity affected finds out and files a defamation suit against you, causing the news to be removed from any media outlet. This is not freedom of the press or freedom of expression, since you have been prevented from doing something that you knew was completely true. So where is our freedom of the press?
With the advent of the Internet, the problem has become even worse, since with the saying “anything goes, freedom of expression please”, it seems that we no longer have limits and that anything goes.
We may argue about whether or not there is freedom of the press and expression, but what is clear is that there is always misinformation . Even though we have hundreds of means of communication right now, what can we really trust? Just think, the same news item can be written in completely different ways depending on the media outlet or simply provide unverified information.
Fake news is undoubtedly an increasingly serious problem, causing the use of this term to increase by 365% in 2017, making it the word of the year according to the Collins dictionary .
By Ipanema Communication , May 3
May 3, World Press Freedom Day , a day to celebrate the fundamental principles of press freedom , a perfect day to defend the rights of the media in disseminating any information of public interest.
World Press Freedom Day was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1993. According to a UNESCO article , “May 3 serves to remind governments of the need to respect their commitment to press freedom and is also a day of reflection among media professionals on issues related to press freedom and professional ethics.”
But are the media really free to say what they think? To spread what they want? And what about us?
Freedom of the press and expression: are we completely free?
Imagine that you have very valuable information of public interest, but you know that iran telegram data publishing it could harm a third party, but if you don't, you harm the rest of society. Your job is to inform, so in the end you decide to publish it, but the person or entity affected finds out and files a defamation suit against you, causing the news to be removed from any media outlet. This is not freedom of the press or freedom of expression, since you have been prevented from doing something that you knew was completely true. So where is our freedom of the press?
With the advent of the Internet, the problem has become even worse, since with the saying “anything goes, freedom of expression please”, it seems that we no longer have limits and that anything goes.
We may argue about whether or not there is freedom of the press and expression, but what is clear is that there is always misinformation . Even though we have hundreds of means of communication right now, what can we really trust? Just think, the same news item can be written in completely different ways depending on the media outlet or simply provide unverified information.
Fake news is undoubtedly an increasingly serious problem, causing the use of this term to increase by 365% in 2017, making it the word of the year according to the Collins dictionary .