who's the founder of the villa web news site and board chair of the european journalism center and derek bros is founder of the conscious resistance network that's an independent media get welcome to both. the first. you. understand you were one of the very very first people to become an avid internet user you very experienced in the way that it's said that it's been changed over the years do you think that it is now a force that's being used to spread hate in incidents like this rather than bringing people together. well this is not exactly the situation because we have seen today the decision of the lankan government has been. adopted to be useful or initially happens in the social network you know only increase will create a speech. before the station out there. somewhere you can see this is a print to try and of course this is because. a lot of things are happening with the social mobile it's all over the world and more and more grounds are concerned with what could happen if you don't have free use of these networks all over. derek just building up the back of that how do you feel about

information neil harvey discussed the move and its implications with journalists vincent pottle and derek bros. a lot of show you start happening with a social no warts all over the world and more and more going around at a concert and who gets what could happen. to free use of the snowball it's all over it's now being looked at as a as a negative role that's being played by the likes of facebook if we look at the christchurch attacking israel and and now the fears of the authorities in sri lanka the tool of social media over the last decade has been used in a number of great ways you can look at the arab spring you can look at the growth of the independent alternative media in the united states and really around the world you know they want to prevent certain hate content or hate speech from spreading and so even before it spreads we're now starting to see actively suppressing of access to the internet maybe access to facebook the governments of the world as well as the tech companies and some of the media are promoting and portraying social media i have difficulty accepting that they are and