Transnational Cyber Communities and Their Affect on National Democracies
It is quite amazing that online social networks and social media are now bringing people together in other countries and are actually changing the outcome of elections.
It's as if the social network of people all around the world care just as much who is elected, and their stance on foreign relations, as it does to the individual citizens that live in that country and live under those rules and rulers.
When politicians in one nation are collecting donations from people on the Internet from all over the world they have an advantage over their opponent.
When monies are used to swing elections in other countries via transnational cyber communities it affects the national democracies and governments of those countries and nation-states.
This is a serious situation, and can undermine the sovereignty of a nation.
It is interesting to note that the mass mobs on the social networks have this much power, but should they? Should we allow mob rule for every single country? If you say yes, then you agree to this occurring in your own country, so how does that make you feel now, that is to say non-citizens, world cyber citizens determining the outcome of elections where you are right now? Some nations monitor very closely what goes on; on their networks inside their country, which might affect their nation's government and rightfully so, and yet, at the same time people are complaining that it is censorship; disallowing certain information to come in, or to go out.
If nations are being controlled by social networks involving people all over the world, then they have already lost their sovereignty to the Internet.
The world is changing fast to hold on, here we go.
It's as if the social network of people all around the world care just as much who is elected, and their stance on foreign relations, as it does to the individual citizens that live in that country and live under those rules and rulers.
When politicians in one nation are collecting donations from people on the Internet from all over the world they have an advantage over their opponent.
When monies are used to swing elections in other countries via transnational cyber communities it affects the national democracies and governments of those countries and nation-states.
This is a serious situation, and can undermine the sovereignty of a nation.
It is interesting to note that the mass mobs on the social networks have this much power, but should they? Should we allow mob rule for every single country? If you say yes, then you agree to this occurring in your own country, so how does that make you feel now, that is to say non-citizens, world cyber citizens determining the outcome of elections where you are right now? Some nations monitor very closely what goes on; on their networks inside their country, which might affect their nation's government and rightfully so, and yet, at the same time people are complaining that it is censorship; disallowing certain information to come in, or to go out.
If nations are being controlled by social networks involving people all over the world, then they have already lost their sovereignty to the Internet.
The world is changing fast to hold on, here we go.