The emerging preference of the Internet as a mode of communication can be attributed towards its variety of potential uses. You can look at cute dogs, buy almost anything, find a recipe for Tira Mi Su, or learn how to make explosives. Internet can be seen liberating or oppressive. The manifestation of information technologies depends upon the way that it relates to other forms of communication, regulations and legislation surrounding it's use, and how it is perceived by its providers and users. It is critical that rank is not as easy to distinguish in Internet communication. This allows for unrestricted free speech or power structures functioning under the camouflage of all the activity. While the Internet is fairly young, we are not. It is quite possible to characterize attitudes towards the Internet as products of pre-internet activity. Rather than the properties of the technology itself creating those attitudes, they derive more influence from our relationship to the technology, and how it "fits in" to the greater cultural landscape. The introduction of the Internet has prompted many questions across culture. How it is accessed and generated is an object of great curiosity. The potential of disinhibited discourse in the Internet may prompt citizens and their respective rulers to follow up on these questions, where mass media quells these desires (in the citizens at least). The Internet itself makes it possible for this sort of inquiry to occur. The Internet is also arranged in a way so that the one who provides the connection can decide what is allowed, what isn't, and how measures will be enforced.
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