Journalist & Tech under threat…We are entering into Intranet society.
India took 90 years to fight for the Independence of India since
at that point of time Internet, Smart Phones, Twitter, Google, Facebook and
many others social websites did not existed at that time. Technology has helped
to increase the awareness and removes the bottle necks of knowledge updating.
We Journalist have been able to create revolution among the societies across the
globe. Today in a country like India where corruption rules the market is under
vigilance of the common people created through media and technology. We
journalist and Technology have created revolution into the society which is
very clearly evident across the Globe. If today Africa is being treated as an
hot investment destination since Journalist and Technology have bridged the Gap
of ignorance.
But I am more concerned about the future independency of the Journalism
and Technology growth. The recent case of ban being imposed by Turkey on
Twitter and even on google raises the voices that government is under severe
threat of the independency of the Journalism and Technology growth. It also
reveals that our profession and Technology is so powerful that even the
governments are scared of its activities. Earlier this week, Turkey's
prime minister promised to "eradicate" the popular service with the
help of a court order. "I don't care what the international community
says," Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said at a campaign rally. We all know
the reason why it has been banned. This means that we Journalist and Technology
need to create secret codes for distribution and circulation of information. The
Vietnamese government also framed law relating to the sharing of news online.
It effectively bans social sharing of news links on sites like Facebook and
other news aggregation platforms.
We have to develop this so that neither the prospective
Journalist neither the Technology could be used to track the source of the information
flow. It clearly revels that individual countries where corruption is high
dictatorship would come into play to control the flow of information. I am more
scared that a time very soon will come where even if these sources are being
kept alive but at the back end information’s which will keep the image of the government
free from any corruption would be circulated. In one word Intranet concept of
information dispersal would come into play. If tomorrow any country or government
does Genocides then due to ban on information supply formats the world would
never come to know the same. In India also we are also under severe threat
since in many places Journalist are being treated badly particularly when this
election phase is going on. We are yet to come under the threat of banning social
sites but this will bring the RTI act under huge demand. Citizens have right to
information and if that is being cooked and processed accordingly and provided
then where the society would head is question of trillion dollar. We are taking
the steps towards Intranet. The responsibilities of the Journalist would be
under severe threat once these Intranet societies comes into play. We have to
move to the next level of the dispersal of information where coded names will
be used and technology would be restricted to access the point of source. These
sources will be created exclusively for the Journalist communities so that they
remain protected. Well don’t forget we are under cover agents of the society working
for the benefit of them.