Social role of Internet

Many authors claim that Internet, as a significant social phenomenon, has a controversy social role.
At the beginning of the third century there were a lot of discussions about disadvantages and risks using the Internet. Particularly, multimedia network Internet became global, planetary network, whose influence is empirical nontransparent, though very important for whole society. Because Internet became basic of virtual reality, researches on this field became necessary. Internet changes range and time’s relations between people and features. Authors claim that Internet presents last step for completing human liberty.
“Internet is making dummies from my perspective. Human being acts in unreal situation, he/she interactively communicates with abstract companion. He/she buys goods or all kind of services with virtual money, cooperates through the screen with lots of unknown companions around the world.” (Panian)
With Internet appearance, man stepped in virtual world in whom casual, classic, psychical criteria and laws doesn’t exist. Internet became basic of virtual reality because human imagination creates notion of something that it’s not available at person’s feelings. In fact, it assumed all areas of apparition inside occurrences.
Paradigm of virtual reality and “Internet way of living” (Bill Gates) brings numeral and complex social changes. Internet positively affects, without a doubt, on quality of life. But, from other perspective, there are some negative tendencies like increase of estrangement because of the lack of moving in real space, or increase of volume and modality of “computer-generated criminality”. Panian said that the privacy of individual has been jeopardized. People are being encased in their virtual worlds. He said that if we accept virtual reality as welfare of technological development, we should learn how to control that, all of the new devices and services.

China and South-Eastern Asia are already trying to control and abridge the content on the Internet.
Even in USA, politicians and religion groups insist on harsh control of flow of information on the Internet. For this, there were public justifications that were based on their efforts to stop pornography.
In fact, the main thing was who is going to control infos inside society.