I wrote this essay for my Engl1B class at SJSU. My opinions and statements here are somewhat inflammatory, dumbed down, and more or less targeted toward a newspaper audience. Given that, I’d like some feedback and appreciate critiques.
The following opinions may not be indicative of my (or anyone’s) personal views on the topic.
You open your web browser and log onto Facebook. You’re online. You check your email and IM your friends. You’re connected. You do a Google search. You’re on the Internet. It’s a vast social experience that you share with countless other people across the globe. It’s a democratic shouting contest of fingertips and eyeballs. The architects of this global super network might say that it belongs to the users, that the Internet is the perfect socialist democracy. But increasingly, this is not the case. The infrastructure, the economy, and the voice of the democratic Internet is controlled by a small proportion of its constituents.
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