People tend to have this sense of freedom when they log onto social networks to be the bold, fearless and most times senseless internet user. This freedom is basically anonymity and deindividuation all mixed up in one.
Twitter pulled racist and anti-Semitic tweets posted in French earlier this month. Many of the German neo-nazi supporters on twitter claimed that a ban on their expression was a ban on their freedom of expression. However, what these users failed to understand is that there is a limitation to the freedom of speech. This limitation means that spreading hate speech is not granted under human freedom. A call for murder isn't a freedom for anything really.
This isn't the first--and definitely not the last-- of users tweeting hate speech on social networks. This definitely isn't news to celebrities and public figures tweets inappropriate texts. Paraskevi Papachristou was suspended from the Olympics after her rant earlier this year.
In 2009, the news was flooded with reports of a Northwest Career and Technical Academy teacher that claimed to the students that Holocaust never happened. This caused other non-Jewish students to make anti-Semitic jokes and follow the claim that the Holocaust was made up.
Oh... I guess the story was just creative writing that spread globally with evidence existing by chance?
Smh...
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