Often times then none social media is a place for consumers to be unapologetically them on their chosen platforms. Like most things in life there is a good and a bad side to things, this goes for social media as well. This article speaks largely of how social media is largely uncensored of public opinions including acts of violence, hatred, and bigotry. Some examples include: Twitter, David Duke , former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, “sometimes tweets more than 30 times a day to nearly 50,000 followers, recently calling for the chasing down of specific African Americans “(Gardner 2018).
It has come to question of should there be some kind of censorship on social media platforms? Although there are settings in these platforms that allow you block people and flag accounts for using derogatory or racist behavior over the internet, how would these people be monitored? I’ve personally come to the conclusion after reading the article that there is no way to completely filter out hate throughout all social media because everyone is subject to their own thoughts and opinions but, there should be more stricter regulations to what people choose to post when it comes to discriminatory behavior.
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LIS 4022 Spring 2020 