Wednesday, 26 October 2016

Twitter tackles the free speech conundrum

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jan/10/twitter-free-speech-rules-hostile-behaviour

Summary
Social medias such as Twitter are said to be promoting freedom of speech,but for many social medias,freedom of speech is not achieveable anymore.For instance in January 2016,a writer's posts on Twitter were removed for breaching Twitter's newly created guidelines for speech and conduct on the platform.

Opinion
I feel that although the aim of social medias is to give people the freedom of speech,it is something that is hard to achieve because there are powerful figures such as the Internet mob and the government.These figures are unforgiving and overreactive,constantly looking out for aggressive online comments,wether intentional or not.Thus with many people judging our actions and comments on social media,it is shed for freedom of speech to survive.

Vocab
recalibrating:adjust 
affiliation:connection
accommodating:considerate
accede:permit
ethnicity:nationality

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