"Reading Response for 'Why I Like Vicious Online Comments' and 'Make Our Ugly Discourse Better: Join the Civilogue.'

I really liked the two readings topic of this week. All the swears and dirty words are part of the internet in the today’s world, and all of this low level of expression became so common out there on the web that We ended up forgetting what internet was created for.
It is easy to say whatever you want when you use the shield of anonymity. Nobody can find out your identity so you feel like you can say whatever you want even if that offends other people. The internet has created a legion of antisocial citizens that besides being away from the real world, also can infect the internet with their not constructive commentaries. In addition those commentaries can put children to unnecessary exposition. I know that we should always respect our human freedom, however we live in a society that does not welcome swear words. I agree with society. We know that children are a big part of the internet users and I do not like to see those youngsters mirroring and learning that kind of vocabulary. Maybe the censure of some words in determined websites could avoid the children exposition and it would be an easy way to solve this problem.
Another issue pointed by Matt Seitz is that, "…the protective force field of anonymity- or pseudonymity--brings out the worst in some people…They say things they would never say in the presence of flesh-and-blood human beings “ I must say that I agree with his statement. I am everyday on the web and always while watching a video on YouTube for example, I take a rapidly look at the video’s commentaries; what you see is exactly what Matt Seitz emphasizes: people make commentaries that they would never do in front of other people.
I agree people have the right to say about their conspiracy theory and use all the swear words they want on the web, however a limit has to be determined to filter the biggest source of knowledge that we have which is the internet. I do not want to see this huge ‘‘library” being contaminated with this unnecessary forms of expression.

Freedom

Freedom is completely relative to the perspective of the human being in question. In my opinion, the definitions of freedom are equal to the innumerous different kind of citizens we have in this planet. Factors such as religion, income, region that you were born and family beliefs among other variables affect the final meaning of freedom for those specific individuals. I can define freedom following my family and community beliefs. I believe that freedom is the right of doing whatever I want to do as long it does not affect the freedom of other people.
I have my classification for the word freedom; however I believe that I cannot define it better than a person that was free and ended up being deprived of having the right of freedom. In my point of view those are the people that can explain this word better.

"Talk to an Iraqi"

The main point of the movie or at least the personal point of the main character, the Iraqi, was stated by him in the very beginning of the video: He always wanted to meet people that are for the war and ask them “Why are you for the war?” However the movie clearly tries to show the worsening of the Iraq caused by the American invasion and the ignorance of the U.S people to the events occurring in that Middle East country.
I completely agree with the Iraqi when he wonders why the war started if so many people in the United States are against it. In addition, just as he said, the U.S was under attack performed by southern citizens of southwest Asia, not Iraqis. Also, the American government usually uses the “slogan” that they are in the war for the liberation of the Iraqi people, which I could realize through the information in the movie that actually the United States, has not given any freedom to those Arabs.
I do not agree with the opinion of some people that blindly believe that the American troops are there in Iraq bringing freedom to the Iraqi citizens. The only benefit accomplished so far by the troops is the fall of Saddam Hussein. His fall came in a costly way though, which thousands of lives were lost from both sides.
Another disagreement that I have is with a woman that talks to Haider and proclaims how good George W. Bush is. In my opinion he was not prepared to be a president and He made the United States a worse country, economically and specially in the view of people from other countries.
Finally the conversation with the 11 years old girl was my favorite part of the movie. She symbolizes what actually the wise, truly American people think about the war.