Blog Post 3: Guidelines to Freedom of Speech?
Confusion, uncertainty, and reflection can all be deemed as common themes appearing for the year of 2020. On May 25th, 2020, the death of George Floyd hit our world and brought the need for change to light. Emotions have been on high resulting in peaceful protests, educational posts upon the matter and a time of unity. However, during this time of mixed emotions there have been many cases of powerful posts through social media and due to this the cause for discussion of the rights of the First Amendment come to question. There have been many cases in which social media sites make the decision to ban certain posts or take them down due to the content that they possess, but the most recent case surrounding the events of George Floyd, can be that of the President of the U.S. on Facebook. President Donald Trump posted a Facebook post addressing issues on the events and a great number of employees in the Facebook Company and the public found them to contain a level of violence. However, though other social media sites addressed this, the chief executive of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg chose to remain rather silent upon the discussion. After much debate from this topic, formed over social media, Mark Zuckerberg addressed his reasoning for not wanting to take action of the post due to protecting the Presidents rights to freedom of speech. Mark Zuckerberg’s response left many with the pondering thought upon the rights surrounding the First Amendment for freedom of speech and brought to light the question of is there guidelines to this or should freedom of speech be considered non filtered?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/facebook-trump-free-speech.html
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