Chat Groups and Free Expression

Chat Groups and Free Expression

If you were granted indefinite and unrestricted access to the Internet, would you be interested to join a chat group that holds no barrier as far as free expression and communication are concerned? Why? Why not?


Actually, I am not very interested in chat groups, although I am interested in having freedom of expression in various forms. Just like an adaptation of the cliché goes: I may not be interested in what other people are saying, but I may fight for the right of those people to say what they want. Most people find the right to freedom of expression that they are seeking in the Internet, where expressions are ironically easier to restrain. The amount of noise in the Internet is often enormous that people have to actively filter what they want to ingest. What’s good with the lesser restrictions in expression is that information is formed in usually many sources, although sometimes this is also a liability because some sources could contradict with their stands on the same issue. But this just reflects the healthy state of communication. Communication in the Internet can be regarded as having its own evolutionary nature, where flaming, racism, and other malicious form of communication naturally die down, and the healthy state of the intended communication naturally survives.