FREE SPEECH ISSUES
1. Facebook’s marketing director, who happens to be Mark Zuckerberg’s sister, proposed last year that banning online anonymity would help curtail cyber-bullying and Internet harassment. Then-Google CEO Eric Schmidt made a similar observation in year 2010, noting that “privacy is incredibly important” but “not the same thing as anonymity.” If banning is already imposed or will be imposed would this stop annoying comments against someone freely posted by an anonymous FB user? Is this ethical? Is this against the freedom of speech? Support your answer.
Harassment is widely evident in various sites nowadays. It is causing a big headache for others. Maybe, banning online anonymity would restrain internet harassment's and cyber-bullying. What is there to post annoying comments with when it is already banned? So maybe, it is one of the few solutions our great minds would have thought so far. Especially in FB, users are free to say and post everything they want to anybody in the network. But some certainly don’t know their limitations. They tend to hurt others feelings and maybe intentionally harass certain people. This is way against the freedom of speech that is bestowed upon us. We have the freedom as well as the responsibility to our own usage of freedom. But being irresponsible is one thing that can be permanently connected to us human species. We tend to abuse our freedom. So certain implementations that are justifiable and righteous would be appropriate nowadays. Banning online anonymity is not wholly against our freedom of speech but it is just a restraining material to hold us back from certain irresponsibility’s that we might tend to do.
2.Is it ethical to blog both awful and pleasant experiences with your ex-girlfriend / ex-boyfriend? Discuss.
As what I believe, experiences and special moments in life are worth sharing be it to friends or to strangers. But in everything we do, there are also these certain limitations and boundaries that we must set to ourselves to avoid undesirable consequences. In the matter of a girl-boy relationship, I strongly consider the privacy of the relationship. You can shout to the world your relationship and brag about how happy you are or even how sad you are for having misunderstandings, but sharing appalling experiences together with your partner to others is out of the question. It is unethical from the fact that it is not the business of others anymore. You might not know that posting or shouting such terrible experiences with your lover can make others think unlikely about you. Do you want others to discriminate or humiliate you? Of course not. Who, in their right mind, would want such thing? Even telling others about amusing experiences with your lover should be minimized. It gets annoying in the long run. Choose the right things you tend to share and especially, choose the right person or group of people whom you relay your stories to.
This doesn’t mean that you cannot tell or blog the things you want to say or tell since we all have our own special way of expressing ourselves. But we just have to think wisely and be responsible of our actions before we actually do it and think highly of ourselves and other’s feelings.
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