Well, I think I'm now definitely headed towards the internet privacy topic.
I figure that that topic has the most potential and is relevant to a lot more people than taxes on in-game items for gamers. Don't get me wrong! I think that the taxation issue if unstopped will hurt a decent amount of people right away, and might sort of evolve into a sort of meta-issue that will endanger the internet using world's wallets.
Yet, with that said, the problem with internet privacy affects everybody now! And on top of that aspects of companies selling priority results (like with Google as displayed in class, for you fellow classmates) and accepting bids to look the other way on bias (as Wikipedia has been accused of in the past) definitely affects the internet's ability to function as a useful public sphere. Technically people will still be to get together and discuss on the internet, but with the way things stand now, any site that gains too much public attention runs the risk of becoming somebody's money-making scheme. And interference with public discourse too often follows that industrial greed.
That said, I'm still up for ways to make my first issue into a matter of public importance (see former post) if anybody is more creative than me. If nobody has anything to say though... internet issues, here I come!
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