The Power of Anonimity

                Mexico, in the past few years, has become an extremely dangerous country to live in, visit or to just pass by in the past few years. The violence amongst the different cartels in Mexico has grown significantly. In the past few years a there have been countless number of innocent people that have lost their lives in the heat of violence. A lot of news reporters, journalists and other media personnel have fallen victim to these cartels. This makes it harder for the people in the people that work in the Mexican media and press to distribute any news information about the cartels. Therefore, informing the public of what is really going on has become real challenge there. In order to be able to fight against the fears that cartels have instilled into the public if they do leak out information about them, a blog website called “El Blog del Narco” (The Drug Trafficker Blog) has taken advantage of the internet’s anonymity powers in order to be able to give people the news about what is really going on in the country. You can take a look at the website, but I must warn you that there is extremely disturbing and graphic material contained in it, here.

                The author’s of this website tend to appeal to their logos and ethos than their pathos. The reason is because they do not want their biased beliefs to create favoritism. Now, some people might argue that putting all the videos, photos and “sharing” all this kind of information with public can cause and instill more fear into the public and create panic and chaos. The panic and chaos is already occurring with or without the media. If are well-informed about what is going on, I argue that that very fear that the videos perpetuate is what can serve as an impetus for the public to move away from locations where most of the cartel action is occurring. This will allow those people, who do not want to involve themselves with the cartels, have more of an advantage to secure themselves and their loved ones more effectively. It is better that these people know more than they should than they should than it is for them not to know anything at all. Thus, Richard Stallman’s golden rule “that if [you] like [something you] must share it with other people” can be applied here. Essentially, if you like your own security then you should share whatever it is in order to have other people possess that security as well: in this case, the cartels’ videos, photos and whereabouts.