Unsolicited information to anyone without any due regard for the qualifications of those recipients could potential turn deadly for the world peace and its value-systems. Information has never been consumed in the whole of human history uniformly and the distribution of information needs to be duly guarded. Social-Media platforms defied themselves such universal values of humans, all in the name of distributing the information to everyone, everywhere, anytime and in all stripes of it under the cover of empowering the recipients themselves.
Such unclassified and uniform dissemination of information has already damaged many dear values of humanity, including the democratic values.
Social-Media is a tool whereas democracy is a value and we can’t compromise on our values in favor of the tools we deploy to achieve and maintain those values.
The well-respected Filipino journalist Maria Resa said in the following interview of BBC’s HardTalk “democracy is essentially dead” referring to multiple studies already conducted in the field and I don’t think that she is alone in claiming that.
It is not a mere coincidence that multiple volatile regions emerged with the ascent of Social-Media platforms around the world and it is only a matter of due consequence to demand the shut-out of the causes of those volatilities to guard world-peace.