Postface
| Autor | Cristiano Ferri |
| Páginas | 233-238 |
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Enjoying the ideas and inquiries of these great minds from the Latin American and Caribbean region was like walking down the pathway that we take to the near future. The texts - which are generally short, objective and direct - deal with real issues in our present day, which roar in our ears every day, provoke relections to help us consolidate the path towards a new era of reassertion and expansion of Freedom of Expression in the world, empowered by this wonderful innovation known as the Internet.
This work helps us a great deal to dispel the haze of confusion that seems innate to the citizen of the beginning of the 21st Century. We cannot deny the obvious: we are all confused. Moreover, for those who do not feel that way, I invite them to relect on the quote (thought to be) from Edmund Murphy: "If you’re not confused, then you’re not paying attention". These texts call attention to several crucial points that govern and will govern our lives from now on.
That is why the chosen macro themes bring very deep and intriguing questions, starting with the protection of privacy, an increasingly expensive right to the new paradigm we live in of overexposure and monitoring from all sides, by corporations, governments or even by our friends, neighbors and acquaintances.
We live constant dilemmas. As we expose ourselves on social networks, exercising our Freedom of Expression in its digital form, we give away information about our personality and behavior. We show tastes, desires and fears. By doing so, we can receive, as a result of our interactions, many positive returns that will improve our lives, our relationships and our careers, which will bring eficiency in some way, including for entertainment and pleasure.
At the same time, we deliver a substantial part of our privacy to companies and governments, which have used such information for a variety of purposes, not yet well known, undeclared, and in many cases violating our privacy. We now begin to see the emergence of new types of villains, or the modernization of old ones: the semi-authoritarian, allegedly democratic state, under the pretext of ighting barbaric crimes, such as terrorism and pedophilia, invades the privacy of the good citizen; Or digital multinational
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corporations that sell, for any who want to buy, large sets of data and processed information that detail the segmented behavior of society.
The world of today is a universe of very obvious paradoxes. At irst glance, we have more access to information, power of expression and interactivity. As public and private institutions are increasingly exposed, we have the impression of living in a more transparent world, closer to the "truth". However, everything is intense: a lot of information, interaction and transparency leave us stunned, confused by the relativization of everything, including this "truth".
One of the paradoxes explored in this book concerns the potentialities and challenges of new forms of free speech on the Internet in the face of the need to preserve people’s privacy. As Carolina Rossini points out, privacy must be one of the pillars of Freedom of...
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