Participation in Self-Government — see Alexander Meiklejohn, Free Speech and Its Relation to Self-Government
Globally society depends on social media platforms to obtain world news as well as local news. In addition, it is also used by everyday people to obtain political information on everyday issues or to learn more about future political opponents that might be coming up for re-elections or election. Social media is a very power tool that could mold how we think and feel which is very scary. It can create a person to have strong emotions at times. Furthermore, it has the power to gather information on what the user likes or dislikes. It has a way of popping up adds when we are using the platform on areas, we might not be interested in.
Chief Executive Officers of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube confirmed during the election that at times they did suppress political information for their own bias agenda. Which restricted political candidates to express their feelings or even their own political agenda. In addition to everyday people sharing their own views when it came to a certain political party. The CEOs of Twitter and Facebook cut certain politicians off the platform so that they could not express their opinions or their goals and objectives. However, if there was political add and the CEOs didn’t like the add on their social platforms, they would cut a certain section of the add or statement to swing the message in a completely different way. In addition, if you use fact check their answer were incorrect of, they didn’t provide the entire statement. The CEO’s also selected people they wanted to ban from their platforms because they didn’t like their comments or their political position.
US citizens were misguided by the CEOs of these platforms due to them not being transparent
and neutral through the election. The question would be if the US citizens had all information would their vote be different?
As mentioned, previously The CEO’s fooled the American people by misguiding them through the election process again by not being transparent. The took away the candidates and the US citizens freedom of speech. This is a very serious issue to me because we do not have freedom of speech at this important time. We can’t continue to silence people with different political views and opinions unless we are going to be a socialist county. The one area that could have impacted some of the voter’s discussions when voting could have been if the CEO’s left the information on social media rather than eliminating it on Hunter Biden, Presidents Biden’s son laptop which provided important information about how Hunter Biden and the Big guy (Joe Biden) was doing business in China during the time Joe Biden was the VP to President Obama. Also, Joe Biden’s brother was also included in emails and documents on his involvements. Millions of dollars were paid to Biden. This is a serious conflict of interest.
I agree with Alexander Meikejohn regarding her comments on Free Speech and it’s Relation to Self-Government.
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