Topic > The Importance of the Internet in the World - 1064

Every day people learn new things on the Internet. The Internet keeps you updated every second that something is uploaded or information is made visible to the whole world. With the Internet evolving from what it was, more and more important information is being published to teach others. The Internet is used all over the world in countries that don't have the freedom that other countries get. Kevin Clarke writes an essay Tweet Like an Egyptian in which he states how technology has rapidly changed the world. Many countries that do not have the freedom that we have, have seen what we are capable of and have protested for the same justice. Clarke says: “The young people who took to the streets in Egypt and Tunisia were not asking for the freedom they could only imagine, they were asking for the freedom they had already experienced in their virtual lives, a freedom they wanted to translate into real everyday life. ” (Clarke page 167). What he means by this is that people have seen the freedom that they could have and are fighting to gain the freedom that others have. The Internet is seen as a power of knowledge. More and more people are realizing what they can do with the Internet, they use it to get information to use to challenge authority, using facts to get what they want.