Yesterday I read an article in the newspaper about how easy it is for people on the web to get your blog censored.
The article states that our freedom of expression expressed in our blogs can easily be destroyed by a bunch of people. And they can do it by using the same software tools as everybody is using for their blogs.
Lets give an example:
Lets say you are a big Chelsea fan and you start a blog in wish you express your passion for that team. In just a few steps you can create such a blog on Blogger.com , wish is owned by Google.
Off course a lot of fans of other clubs will disagree with a lot of things that you will be writing in your blog or even hate you for it.
Your visitors on your Blog can simply press this button on top of your Blogger Blog ' Flag this Blog'. By hitting that button a message is send too Google stating that there might be inappropriate content on your Blog.
If your Blog is been flagged to often Google can shut down your Blog. Google can even deny you access to your Blog for it, wish they will only do in very extreme cases.
In most cases what Google will do when your Blog has been flagged to many times is making your Blog unsearchable. In other words, making it impossible to find.
Making your Blog unfindable is in a way being censored and this censorship doesn't come from the top but from the grassroots,it can come from anybody who is using the internet.
If somebody doesn't like your ideas, the only thing they have to do is getting your Blog flagged enough times for it being unfindable!
In this way it might endanger your freedom of expression.
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