Tech and freedom of speech

Technology has brought various benefits for us. One of them is electronic media. No problem, wherever we are, we can know whats happening at distant areas without any labour. This gave rise to innumerable news channels providing latest upto date information from parliament, sport grounds, markets, and of course our communities and localities. In part few years, many news channels have been launched in pakistan in almost all regional languages. No doubt there private channels are different from state channels and look events from a different perspective. There channels show what our nation is crying for and pose special focus on the problems of our people. Previously our nation was forced to rely on govt news resources but later when private news channels were launched, people began to rely on their reporting. As the time is passing, people are also pointing at these channels saying that these channels are not independent and are influenced by govt and usa. Recent ban on news channels, and their reopening, pemra ordinance and other such events have blanketed the reliability of our media. Now people dont readily accept what media is portraying specially pakistani media. So whats the solution to this problem? Who has the answer? Yes, technology has the solution to this problem.

Now a days there are innumerable types of tools and functionalitys available in cyber world by which you can express yourselves without any interception or involvement by government. You can express and broadcast yourselves to the whole world for free.

You can make your free websites and place there audio, video, animations, graphics along with text. Its your freedom of speech. You can place articles, jokes, news, your views about people, places, sports, politics, about your family and friends. But these websites are hard to construct. Its substitute is Blog. Via blog, you can express yourself ton without any difficulty. Only you have to create an account. Blog works as a personal diary in which you can write your every days experiences. In blogs, entries can also be posted via mobile, in that case it is called as moblog. People who read your blog can also leave you comments. There are millions of blogs made by millions of people living in diff parts of world. People can post happenings of their areas which whole world can read and can interact with user directly. Now you dont need to rely on what international media is portraying, now you can know about the world by your friends. Its freedom of expression.

Their are other websites for example youtube, where you can post videos. Snap a movie from a bomb blast scene and post it on youtube as it is. This is also entertaining when you post a footage of local ceremonies, fairs, dances, and places.

Moreover there are virtual communities such as facebook, myspace, orkut, and many others. Here you can interact with people of your choice. You can search for friends by setting priorities as age, regions, sex, interests, hobbies, and ofcourse education. You can directly message them, make and join communities, share music and other data files. Its great fun, entertainment and freedom of speech.

Now a days, even nano blogging sites have been launched such as twitter, jaiku etc. You can post immediately what you think, hear, or see, via your mobile, instant messenger, or net. It will be sent to all who are following you or are your friends on their mobiles via sms. Its great service via which you can get instant knowledge of happenings around the globe directly in your hands.

All this freedom is the result of ceaseless efforts of peoples. You only need a bit of will and use of net and tech gadgets then the world is at your finger tips. Thanks to modern technology.