Can We Trust the Internet?

Are you an idiot? Not everybody will say yes. However, you certainly have the right to be an idiot on the Internet.

The Internet contains too much information that not a single person can claim to have read all of them. With so much information flooded to our eyes, our mind tends to stop thinking. Without going through the critical thinking process, we are vulnerable to any unethical information providers.

Ever since we know how to speak, the tendency of lying grows with age. It is sometimes impossible not to tell lies. The world is full of lies and we as part of the participants have no choice but to lie. A lie before the Information Age has limited impact and always target to specific audiences. However, a lie in Information Age can potentially ruins the lives of an entire generation. The reader may accidentally fall into the trap for which he is not a targeted audience of the lie.

Should we protect these people from falling into the trap? Should we do nothing for the sake of freedom of speech? Should we return the judgments of what is right and what is wrong to the readers? This article suggests we should. This is after all the age where encyclopedia can be an illegitimate information source. Whom should we start to protect?