Thursday, September 16, 2010

A Fluid Stalemate


As mentioned in class, as soon as a new program is created and made available in cyberspace, there are people who create its anti-thesis. Maybe this is due to pride or bitterness or challenge. Whatever the reason for this is, I still believe that this cycle is not essentially bad.

Why? Because this helps improve the whole system. These people “test” the new program and exact from it a quality that is, more or less, foolproof, by inducing shocks that will determine its loose ends. However, I also can not discount the reality that good intentions are absent and that what merely motivates these people is anarchism.

In spite of all these, and in light of the fact that the law can not catch up with ICT nor catch those anarchists, we might as well take this as a fluid stalemate with synergistic effects. The creators come up with new programs, the anarchists test them, and the law catches up by regulating this cycle to promote public welfare.

-Michelle P. M. Sabitsana

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