Human Rights And Security: The Difference Between Freedom And Freedom

Being safe and free are two natural instincts of animals and human beings. Even though we are born with these innate characteristics there is a huge difference between the development of the two over the course of history.

Safety has improved pretty quickly over history, during prehistory the man realized that living in groups increase its chances to survive and later realize that we have to rely on each other to satisfy our needs and wants. This was the basic principle that lead to the creation of ancient civilizations and to the formation of society, intendend as people living together in organized communities with shared laws, traditions, and values . From the enlightment until nowadays the human being looked at science as a way to explain

Freedom means the state of being free or at liberty rather than in confinement or underphysical restraint or exemption, but in this case we are talking about a more specific section of freedom called privacy so the exemption from external control, interference, regulation. Differently than security, freedom has been achieved later in world history with the French Revolution in 1789 being the first time citizen claimed with words and then violence equal rights for everybody without any kind of discrimination. The revolution of rising expectations states that as soon as life conditions are improved in one area, that improvement become standard within a period of time and people will demand for more is a perfect analogy of what has happened with human rights and privacy at least in the western part of the world, we have gained these rights recently, slighly before or after we were born and now we seem them as normal. This is the reason why we see as legitimate the protests against special security measures such as digital and camera controls applied in extraordinary circumstances such as after the Paris terrorist attack, because security is limiting our freedom. It has been proved that security decrease freedom, the most notable examples of it are the controls in the airports before and after 9/11, the Edward Snowden scandal where all the SIM cards and mobile phones of US citizen were spied

Unfortunately these companies can block only the account affiliated with terrorism and not the ones who promote radical views and interpretation of Islam or other topics because there are still no proofs or connections with any groups therefore an effective security measure will be to extend account deletion to this second category after a list of all the people who like or follow their posts has been recorded. Deleting online contents it is not a form of censorship or limitation of freedom because if these contents are public everybody can see them and they can be removed legally according to the terms and conditions accepted when the users has registered to a