The internet is a global phenomenon with a quarter of all humanity using its services.
Yet politics in various countries reduce the full potential of its ability. My own use is always political when exercising my free speech (such as on my website www.libreamerica.com), and it’s global till it hits a filtered server internationally or even domestically. Friends have told me that our website for “Libre! America” was blocked by the Department of Homeland Security, most likely because they deemed it too controversial. The Internet itself was born out of a controversial era, when humanity itself was sitting on the edge of oblivion. The world could’ve been reduced to ashes with the single touch of a button during the nuclear Cold War. There were extremely militaristic and political purposes during its inception in the 1960′s. Therefore, the foundation of the Internet itself was wrapped around politics of the day. Yet even nowadays we see a resemblance in dispositions between modern day superpowers such as China, Iran, Russia and the United States.
Luckily this communication technology, developed during the Cold War, was used for the benefit of mankind. It was later commercialized and privatized for personal use during the 1990s around the collapse of the Soviet Union as war purposes were no longer threatening. A revolutionary, and technological breakthrough, it has been driven by industry and evolved with the help of idealistic and technology savvy individuals around the world. Pioneers of digital freedom. Yet with increasing government and industrial pressure, these freedoms may be limited as a new Cold War starts to resurface in an escalating temperamental environment. Internet service providers seek to make profit by eliminating net neutrality, while certain countries, such as in China and Iran, use Internet censorship to control the media their populace is exposed to. In the sense of democracy, the Internet’s Web service provides an equal platform for free speech. Yet when access is limited in certain geographic regions, then the full global capacity is significantly reduced to a dystopian level. This is further endangered by large media conglomerate service providers lobbying governments to further restrict net access, though for a price. Akin to putting toll roads on every road in the nation, this would be a great threat to net neutrality.
Websites like YouTube and Google have been forced by governments to remove content and limit their services in various regions in order to comply with certain political processes. Recently PirateBay was shut down, or forced down, by the FBI (pressured by industry) in a joint U.S.-Swedish government movement. Swedish law allows for copyrighted material to be shared, yet in the U.S. and many other countries, this is outlawed. This move has been seen as extremely controversial. Despite these kind of threats to the net, services such as Creative Commons allows the average creator the ability to freely choose how he or she will distribute their work without the worry of infringing international laws. Political can also be the engagement of citizens participating in petitions, showing support, and donating money to campaigns online and on mobile devices. Overall, many see the Internet as the last frontier of freedom and expression, yet if we don’t remain politically and globally active with the Internet, we may find our dot.coms reaching their final period.
With an Associates of Applied Science in Multimedia, Rick is freelance web designer, interactive developer, and all around artist in a multitude of mediums. 
Amazing post Rick, and I have to agree with you… then again it's a domino effect that ends up in a loop… Mexico's government is so corrupted that only makes richer to the ones who are already rich and even more poor to those who already are… but most mexican's are fully aware of this and they don't do anything… they pursuit the american dream, which ok fair enough, but in my opinion what Mexico needs is another civil war, we are one of the richest countries in america, we shouldn't need to import nor export anything!…but here we are importing corn…YES IMPORTING CORN!…our main meals are made of corn tortillas and we need corn from the USA… so ideally, like a bad weed, we need to get rid of it from the root… Mexico need mexicans to speak out in order to make Mexico a new country of opportunities, Mexico's government should stop joking around and pay the dept we have with the USA but funny thing is that both both governments know that is better just keeping the delay on this…one thing goes to another and we are stuck in the mood of powerful governments corruption. And true is that we need another Miguel Hidalgo or some kind of an Iron Man cause as soon as somebody tries to make a change in the country as soon as you end up with a bullet in the head. Maybe we should get some tips from Osama Bin Laden, in order to make a revolution and stay hidden at the same time.