When we think of the best philosophers we often think of the ones who come from our own back yards, not in the literal form of the matter, but in the hypothetical frame of speech. In this instance, "back yard" is referring to somewhere close to where we live. It can mean in our city, in our state, in our region, or even in our country. That means that for someone who is a philosopher and is not in our "back yard" he is outside of our scope of living. So what countries outside of the United States and Canada have philosophers that are known to talk about tech, the internet, web. 20 and its advances?
The simple, but yet complicated, answer to that question is: EVERYWHERE. They are literally everywhere on every piece of land on earth. But just because they are everywhere, does not mean they always know what they are talking about. We've interviewed a great number of intellectuals in the past to ask them a wide ranging subset of questions about the internet, how new ajax technology is shaping web 2.0, and how innovation will be a driving force for how the web turns out in the future.
Along our interview search we discovered Jürgen Habermas a German thinker who told us things we couldn't fathom existed when it came to web properties and how they work. Silicon valley in California is now having a run for its money. Bruno Kreisky Prize winner for being one of the most influential advancers of human rights, Habermas, is a man like you would never before come across. Habermas has been quoted as saying that the internet plays a vital role on authoritarian regimes and the way they influence their political voters and citizens.
His claims about the Orwellian control of big brother in developing countries like China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in Asia, Brazil and Columbia in South America, and Hungary and Romania in Eastern Europe, have a chilling effect of truth to them. When it comes to the functioning and democratic, or democratic republic, countries of the west, the nightmarish control of governments through state sponsored media is not such a big problem as some think.
When it comes to wanting a decentralized access to stories which were not modified or fabricated, we must check if the powers that be are growing in their egalitarianism by using the internet and the content posted on the internet as a means of pushing an agenda. If there was to be made a case that governments are indeed pushing propaganda through the use of internet sites and mediums, then the evidence must be presented. The fact of the matter however is that because of how big web 2.0 has gotten, and that since people are now publishing their own (sourced) content, we can no longer claim that one principal organization is controlling everything we see.
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