For the collective publication, I decided to specialise more so on the role of censorship and classification in the media and information systems in the future. Iâve especially been looking at the legislation that has been passed which give governments the power to govern and control.
This experiment has derived from âThe Declaration of Independence of Cyberspaceâ, however takes an alternative view on the freedom of cyberspaces. I made this speculative legislation ambiguous in nature, so that it did not reveal any contextual information about the period of time our group is hypothesising about. This was achieved by constantly referring to the country as the state, never putting an official date on the legislation, and using an abstract and unseen watermark.
This speculative legislation is derived highly from contemporary Chinese Internet Censorship legislation, however focusing more on how the government, or whatever form of power that would control in the future, would aspire to govern a space in which individuals can be anonymous and their actions are separate from their physical self. This legislation is quite totalitarian and advocates the State having absolute power over the users. I plan on also creating a news article or some other form of socialist propaganda to balance out these claims, thus avoiding the dull prediction of a futuristic world in which the government has absolute control. Because even in society today, their is a constant battle between hackers and those trying to govern the internet, and it is reasonable to assume that this will also be the case in the future.
