For the Sake of Free Speech
When we are left with conflicting choices, there is only one thing to do.
The South Korean entrepreneur, Oh Yeon-ho, famously said that “every citizen is a reporter” before starting his online newspaper Ohmynews.com in the year 2000. He coined the term citizen journalism, born out of his distrust of traditional main stream news media. Here we are, two decades later, living in a world where we rely on YouTubers, influencer TikTok videos, microblogging feeds, and Substack, to digest encapsulated news from around the world. A regular guy sipping on his Cortado and typing away on his laptop in a local coffee shop has the power to change the world with his words.
Yeoh-ho stated a revolution, but it had one major flaw. Every citizen started to believe their truth. If your source of truth isn’t mine, then yours must be fake news. If hate news outlets are an abomination for some who demand censorship, it is a constitutional right for others. We have lost trust in government, but we believe in the truth socials controlled by megalomaniacs. We are skeptical about wha…
