Justin Bieber, kidrauhl. Charice (Pempengco), FalseVoice. Kevin Wu, KevJumba and Ryan Higa, nigahiga. These, and a myriad other personalities, owe their global sensation to everybody's favorite video-sharing site, YouTube. They took that single courageous step of uploading their videos in the website, braving the harsh comments that came their way and sighing in relief as the numbers under their video start to tick faster, the digits getting larger in value and soon enough, they already have a cult following of their own.
The same process of gaining worldwide attention roots from the primordial foundation of democracy itself. YouTube gives the power of equal expression to the people (or to those who have Internet connection, at the very least) by letting them comment on the video, liking the video and bashing the video, unfortunately. However, it singles out the power of the viewers to remove the video once it reaches to many dislikes (*cough* JB vids *ehem* I kid).
This points out that websites are run in an authoritarian way by site moderators. Who can blame for such a government? With the bulging population of Internet users, managing them entails the use of an iron hand. Even if it means banning entrance to some users every now and then.
All these I say because I have all the time in the world. Or so I think. Better get back to this PowerPoint editing nightjob. Got my train of thought cut off. Will edit as soon as possible.
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