INTERNET AND FREE FLOW OF INFORMATION FACE HURDLES IN DICTATORIAL TERRITORIES

By Promod Puri World Wide Web originally meant creating a free connected web of interlinked or hyperlinked online sites worldwide. That was the idea of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man who drove the concept of online connectivity in 1989. Shared information is created, consumed, commented, spread and recreated while keeping its growth and spread with speed. That is the environment we breathe in the community of social media. It is a “two-way, conversational environment in which information passes horizontally from one person to another along with social networks, rather than being delivered vertically from an impersonal central source,” according to …