Billions of people use the internet every day.

Every user is responsible for their choices on how to engage.

How others choose to use the internet is completely outside of your control.

Billions of people use the internet every day. Yet each person’s choice to enter this global technological environment begins with a single self-empowering action, that of turning on a device and choosing to look, listen, and read what appears on the screen.

Universally, the internet does not approach you; it is you who chooses to turn on the internet device. The moment you do, you have chosen to enter the world of the internet, a world that you do not control.

In terms of this technological process, what others choose to present and publish on the internet is entirely outside your power and control. However, what you choose to watch, listen to, or read on the internet is within your control and power.

This insight is the foundation of personal responsibility and self-empowerment. In terms of the internet, you cannot control the presentation or existence of any content others present. However, in absolute terms, you do control, and you do have power over your thoughts, choices, and actions.

Agency is present in that you are the one who turns the device on or off, and you are the one who chooses what to read or view on the internet. When you consciously and deliberately choose to engage — or disengage — with what is on the internet, this self-initiated conscious act of choice is the universality of agency.

Agency is the conscious capacity to direct one’s thinking, choices, and actions. It is this internal, conscious power that originates intrinsically within the individual and enables the individual to act with self-initiated, self-directed, and self-empowering intentionality. In absolute, immutable terms, agency means that you are responsible for and you have the power over your thoughts, utterances, decisions, responses, behaviors, and choices.

Responsibility Theory expresses this universal truth, which starts with the following question: “What........

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