The Article "2017 WAS A TERRIBLE YEAR FOR INTERNET FREEDOM." was written by Issie Lapowsky. The article was written in order to bring awareness to the problems internet freedom is facing around the world but turns more into a bashing of the trump administration instead. The tone used is one of concern, and meant to inform, appealing to Ethos by citing quotes.
The author throughout the article sounds very concerned about the future of internet freedom as things begin to change, talking about the changes to Net Neutrality that have been proposed by Ajit Pai, something that seems likely to happen at this point. The main strength of this article is its appeal to ethos, citing many of Trump's famous tweets, his main form of communication, mostly using the ones where he bashes on the news networks that report on thing that make him seem bad, she also cites many dates in order to show when things happened to give a relative feeling of how present this problem is right now. The purpose was to inform the average American as to what is going on right now with internet freedom, and encourage them to speak out to their representatives in order to stand up against the problem and hopefully fix this. She accomplishes this goal well, as well as many others who have also spoken out against this problem.
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