Free Writing on Blogs: Only an Illusion?
Blogging is a mode of expression where people are given the chance to express their thoughts and opinions easily to an online audience.
Indeed, blogging is a tool where we can express our thoughts freely without any limitations. We are not restricted with the rules in writing unless we choose to. We can have wrong grammars, wrong spellings, inconsistent idea flow, rants and even a post full of lists! We are free to do and talk about anything we want and no one has the right to dictate us and steer us away from our own original intentions.
This is why many people consider blogging as free writing… Is it?
I bet most of you may have already heard the news about BoyBastos.com, the website that had been ordered to be temporarily closed down by local authorities after being urged by Senator Loren Legarda that the said site contains materials of explicit content that may pose as a threat to the young internet users of today. [Sources: here and here]
Mark Verzo (the owner of BoyBastos.com) was then invited for questioning and was later released as the authorities decide what course of action to take against BoyBastos.
For a seemingly everyday and common post of Mark Verzo that aims to express and entertain his readers, things suddenly went out of control and everything turned out into a total disaster. It happened to him on his website, it could happen to us on our blogs.
What happened to BoyBastos is really unsettling. Aren’t we on the internet where liberated and radical ideas are common and widely accepted? Isn’t blogging a place where freedom of expression reigns? What happened to free writing?
