blog response for 05/09/05

To me, the concept of public space in cyberspace means that everyone is free to look at what is there in the public space. I think that it is crazy to hear that there are such country-wide firewalls restricting a person from looking up anything that might question the government who has control over these firewalls. I feel as though this is just power being used to continue to stay in power, and not looking over the actual welfare of their people who might benefit in having access to more information. But on the other hand, I can see how having access to certain free public space can be abused as well. When just anyone can look up how to make there own home bomb, it seems as though information like this should be restricted in some form, so as this information doesn’t fall in to the wrong hands, or just irresponsible hands. So I think that there is a fine line as to how far public space in cyberspace, should be in full force public. But as with everything you will run into problems with people who defy all aspects of this, in this case, hackers.