Protocol Ch. 1+2 Summary

     In the technology of the internet, there must be language used.  There are actually many different languages when it comes to the internet to facilitate all the different pathways needed to transmit the interconnections between the billions of computers being used across the world.  At first there was an attempt to keep the languages and translations of the languages at a central hub for all computers connected to read in order to work correctly, but as the web grew larger and larger as well as moved further away from the central hub, it took longer and longer for the information to be processed and carried.  For this reason, the languages were switched from being in a centralized hub to being a part of the internet where everything is neither reducible nor irreducible.  The internet's language and the internet itself is everywhere and nowhere at the same time.  It can be monitored, but cannot be seen, found, or caught.  It changed from being like the human circulatory system where the heart is the central hub and could be destroyed and destroy the entire system, to the neural system where the brain functions regardless of damaged parts, though damaged parts will cause hindrances to certain functions.

     Another aspect of the internet is the seeming egality of it for the population.  Enzensberger thought that a form of media like the internet could change society in such a way that it would give everyone an equal voice; however, the internet is still moderately censored, but not in ways that are easily discernible.  The internet still is controlled by "reputable" or "reliable" sources, which may or may not be reputable or reliable.  The elite classes of society may still control what is found true and what is not by discrediting sources that threaten them and commend sources that benefit them.  This doesn't mean the internet necessarily operates in this way, but that it has the ability and possibility of doing so.  This is far more troubling because it becomes excessively difficult to prove or even bring public suspicion of this being the case; especially when you have such seeming polar opposites as Fox News and "liberal" media outlets who speak in vastly different ways, but can be simplified to vastly similar positions.  The media is a talking game and finding truth in any media is always muddled with opinions.