The Freedom and Prison of Words

Where do views come from?

How did we arrive at our own beliefs?

Words through media, particularly from a person of authority can immediately place doubt in our independent thought and leave us vulnerable to any ‘irrational' thought, which may seem logical at the time. Such media of authority is ‘Google’.

I thought that this article on "Is Google making us stupid?" (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google) was an interesting read and take on the control side of society. The affect Google has on people is largely subconscious.
Given a task, it's highly likely that the individual in question would immediately search on Google of any unknown aspects to a topic. Google controls the articles according to what it thinks is relevant to what we would like to read.
Controversially China's government have chosen to censor or block certain websites to their populace. Their choice to do so has an apparent affect on its people and their free will to do as they please. On the other hand; are they doing a favour for their citizens? Surely there's a valid reason as to why they censor websites?

Here is further aritcle that may be of interest, on; 'Our lives controlled from some Guy's couch'

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/science/14tier.html

Recommended Reading List:
Singer, P. (1995). How Are We To Live: Ethics in an age of self-interest. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Collier, A. (1999). Being and Worth. London: Routledge.
Spaemann, R. (1991). Basic Moral Concepts. London: Routledge.
Hare, R. M. (1965). Freedom and Reason. Oxford: Clarendon Press.