Is Internet a new form of Devil
Did you know? The Cybercrime has crossed the worth of more than $10 trillion and it will increase more and more in upcoming years. Dark Web is part of internet where all the crimes and deals of illegal substance are made. There is 3.7% contribution of internet in emitting CO2 globally. Isn’t it clearly indicating that internet is a new form of devil that is promoting evil? Let’s know in today’s blog “Is internet a form of Devil?”
Firstly we need to know what actually Devil is. According to religion, Devil is most powerful evil being means that the creature that is born for doing evil only. As darkness is not an entity but only a lack of light similarly evil is just a lack of goodness. What you think, is evil dominant on Internet or goodness? First let’s know what evil impacts of Internet are:-
Killing Nature and its resources
It can be difficult for you to believe that internet is killing nature and its resources but it’s sad truth. Around 10% of world’s total electricity is consumed by Internet in today’s world and consumption is going to increase by 20% by 2025. As coal and nuclear energy are the major sources of electricity, these resources may run out in future due to their high usage. As Internet consumes more than 150 Giga watts of electricity they also emit a lot of CO2. There is emission of 0.85 pounds of CO2 per kWh by electricity and around 3.7% of global emission of CO2 is made by Internet. Crypto mining is one of the major sources that consumes a lot of electricity and emit CO2. This percentage is going to increase more in future if every country promotes them. Isn’t it enough to kill the nature?
Birth of Cybercrimes
The black market of cybercrimes has crossed the worth of $10 trillion. The rates of cybercrimes and cyber attacks are increasing day by day and around 80% people in India and 60% people in USA have ever experienced any cyber crime as of December 2019 and now it is 2022, you can imagine what can be the present percentage of cybercrime in world. As you know the internet that we surf is only 4% and rest 96% of internet is hidden from the common people and can’t be explore with regular browsers. This 96% includes 90% of Deep Web and 6% of Dark Web. Dark Web is criminals’ paradise on Internet where the deal of illegal substance and crime are committed. And it is the available data about internet who know how much dark or black internet is?
Boost to wrong content
You should know that every day around 306 billion are sent and received on Internet. But the thing is that of 85% of that emails are spam mails which can include phishing and unwanted promotions. 86% of internet users admit being duped by fake news and you know that fake news is spread mostly through Social media. We all know that which social media platform is hub of such fake news and cybercrimes. And this is going to really surprise you that around 37% of content on internet is of **** and this percentage was very high in earlier year when no actions were taken against such websites. The current worth of this industry is $100 billion you can search more about this. I can’t provide more information regarding this may go against guidelines.
The end of privacy
It is not appropriate to point any particular firm or IT company for this. Almost every IT industry collects your personal information and keeps track on what you are surfing on Internet and your device activities which is also known as Computer Network Surveillance. One of the popular search engines that we all know collects every data of online activities and offline activities as well, from visiting any place in real world to visiting any website on Internet even your content details it keep your every single information. Your content details, your interest and your personal details are all sold by the IT industry privately to many big companies. There is no way to protect your privacy on Internet. From my opinion you should wear mask on Internet to protect your privacy I hope you understand I want to say.
Destroying Youths
One is responsible for his own destruction and success. It depends on individual in what environment he/she is living, what content one is exploring. As technology involves the craze of gaming and short videos i.e., reel or you can say the act of stupidity sometimes increases among youth. Some youth are going crazy for online gaming, stuff like rank pushing and so on… and some youth are going crazy in making senseless reel videos and think that they will be popular one day. Only few youth are focusing on career because they know about the toughest competition that is coming soon. These social media apps are made with the algorithm that is designed to retain the attention of users. You will never know how much time you have wasted on these social media sites. Recent studies also found social media sites have negative impact on mental health which is obliviously responsible for common problems like sleep disorders, anxiety and depression. These problems are enough to destroy your brain capacities and your self-esteem.
Isn’t this enough to tell how internet is spreading evil in world. But do you think that internet was made for this reason. No, let’s know what the vision of Internet was?
Vision of Internet
Well the Internet was founded by Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf. Bob Kahn and Vint Cert were credited for making internet but the current internet is based on WWW which was introduced by Tim Berners-Lee, Bob Kahn and Vint Cert was responsible creating communication protocols like IP/TCP among computer systems. Tim Berners-Lee wanted the WWW to be a place where all people had access to the best information at any time. Bob Kahn and Vint Cert have similar opinion just like Tim Berners-Lee. They shared the belief that “information should be free” for all humans and that access to the internet would “make the world a better place.” As America owned and controlled Internet that time they wanted everyone to get benefit of this technology not just America. Is their vision still applicable on Internet? Well yes, let’s know how?
Knowledge and Skill
As you know most of information and knowledge on internet is available for free of cost and many people still use internet to boost their knowledge and skill through quality content present on Internet. And yes I’m one them, Internet is the only source from where I have learned everything about technology from programming to make games, apps and website. As you know there was lack of technology content in India in previous years and it was difficult to afford the fees of offline courses for me. Internet saves my times that allows me learn more skills. YouTube and Google are the best teachers of my life. There are lots of examples in the world that proves that internet is the best source of learning if used. Internet has connected and teachers and students from all around the world. This is clearly indicating that the dream of internet founders is fulfilling.
Increase job opportunity
As you know that rate of unemployed was so high earlier. As businesses were taking place on internet they were creating the employed for every people whether one is skilled, unskilled or freelancer internet has given everyone opportunities to earn through their talents. YouTube is one the best example of this; there are more 51 million YouTube channels on YouTube and more than 1 billion websites on Internet which allows developers to make money through it. And just YouTube and but there are lot of website that allows people to money. As technology is evolving IT industries are hiring ethical hacker, data scientists, AI developer and programmers, which is creating more and more employment for growing population.
Conclusion
From my opinion people are themselves responsible for spreading evil or goodness in world. Depending on the people for what purpose they are using the internet. If they are using internet for information, then internet is spreading knowledge, skill and goodness. If they are using internet for doing wrong stuffs, then internet is spreading evil around the world and creating a new form of evil. But Social media are highly responsible to promote the evil or good among the netizens. It should be the moral responsibility of social media sites to promote knowledge and skill not the wrong content that is attracting and destroying the youths. I hope you understand what message I want to convey through this blog 😃.
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