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Throughout every major technological transformation in history, the same recurring question arises:
How can we protect social values?<\/strong><\/p>\n

From the press in earlier times to cinema, television, the internet, and now short video platforms like TikTok and Reels \u2014 each generation has felt the same anxiety. Yet one truth remains: technology cannot be stopped by administrative decrees or strict penalties<\/strong>. It imposes itself upon everyone, whether we like it or not.<\/p>\n

The great illusion is believing that prohibition protects values<\/strong>.
In reality, restriction, censorship, and punishment may seem like an easy fix, but this approach carries a dangerous delusion \u2014 it suppresses what is good while harmful content finds endless ways to spread.<\/p>\n

Prohibition does not create awareness \u2014 it only delays an explosion.<\/strong>
Values are not built through fear, but through free and conscious practice<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Real power lies in awareness and creating alternative content<\/strong>.
If these platforms are the language of youth, it is wiser to speak their language than to confiscate it. We must fill these digital spaces with good, enjoyable, and cultural content.
Awareness cannot be imposed \u2014 it must be experienced.
Balance in society comes not from laws alone but from cultivating taste, unleashing creativity, and opening spaces for expression.<\/p>\n

Experience is the true teacher.<\/strong>
Like individuals, societies learn by experimenting. Youth may misuse new technologies at first, but through trial and correction they develop an inner immunity stronger than any censorship.<\/p>\n

Just as we cannot stop the tide of the sea, we cannot halt the waves of technology \u2014 but we can learn to swim<\/strong> in them and steer them toward good<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The future of values in the age of social media<\/strong> will not be built on walls of prohibition but on bridges of awareness<\/strong>.
The true challenge is not to silence disturbing voices, but to amplify inspiring ones<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Every generation has its medium \u2014 and the medium of this generation deserves to be nurtured, not fought; enriched, not restricted<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He is the former head of the Gynecology Department, Faculty of Medicine Cairo University. He conducted his post graduate studies from 1979 till 1981 in the United States. He was elected as a member of the Egyptian Parliament and chairman of the Education and Scientific Research Committee in the Parliament from 2000 till 2005. As a politician, Dr. Hossam Badrawi was known for his independent stances. His integrity won the consensus of all people from various political trends. During the era of former president Hosni Mubarak he was called The Rationalist in the National Democratic Party NDP because his political calls and demands were consistent to a great extent with calls for political and democratic reform in Egypt. He was against extending the state of emergency and objected to the National Democratic Party's unilateral constitutional amendments during the January 25, 2011 revolution. He played a very important political role when he defended, from the very first beginning of the revolution, the demonstrators' right to call for their demands. He called on the government to listen and respond to their demands. Consequently and due to Dr. Badrawi's popularity, Mubarak appointed him as the NDP Secretary General thus replacing the members of the Bureau of the Commission. During that time, Dr. Badrawi expressed his political opinion to Mubarak that he had to step down. He had to resign from the party after 5 days of his appointment on February 10 when he declared his political disagreement with the political leadership in dealing with the demonstrators who called for handing the power to the Muslim Brotherhood. Therefore, from the very first moment his stance was clear by rejecting a religion-based state which he considered as aiming to limit the Egyptians down to one trend. He considered deposed president Mohamed Morsi's decision to bring back the People's Assembly as a reinforcement of the US-supported dictatorship. He was among the first to denounce the incursion of Morsi's authority over the judicial authority, condemning the Brotherhood militias' blockade of the Supreme Constitutional Court. 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