Blog log 1 – Internet as political media

Article

This article interested me because it illustrates how the internet can be used as a tool for political reasons.  The quality of this article was very good because the author remained objective and presented points from both sides.  In the article, a man was sent to jail for a month for just a simple tweet, which made me think about how in our world right now, we do not have a lot of free speech. The article really made me think about our modern society and how almost everything, such as political issues, are using the internet as their primary media to achieve a particular political agenda.  I also thought about how the internet makes it a lot harder to find meaningful news that you are 100 percent sure is unbiased and real, because with the internet there also comes a lot of fake news and it is hard, at times, to differentiate between the good and the bad.