In the article “Doxing Is a Perilous Form of Justice-Even When It’s Outing Nazis”, Emma Grey Ellis has given an excellent unbiased view on the culture of doxxing. Ellis believes that doxxing will make human interactions “be a whole lot harder--for everyone.” Personally, I agree with her statement but I also believe that doxxing should be allowed to a certain extent. However, Logan Smith, the person behind the Twitter account @YesYoureRacist, has gone too far with doxxing.
In the past, doxxing were mostly done by alt-right users from the infamous website that I am not going to name in this response. Many right-wing groups such as Anonymous originated from this website and Anonymous was known to be one of the earliest doxxing groups on the Internet. The difference between groups like Anonymous and @YesYoureRacist is that these groups only dox when someone or some group
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While @YesYoureRacist is saying that he is merely “releasing information only acquaintances and family members would recognize”, one picture is enough for hundred of thousands of people to track that doxxed person down. That one picture can even cause false identity claims. For example, Kyle Quinn was a person that lived over one thousand miles away from the Charlottesville incident. However, @YesYoureRacist thought that Quinn was at the protest and now the threats and harassments against Quinn have become so severe that he “felt unsafe in his home”. In the end, using the doxxing method in a social media platform used by millions of people around the world should not be allowed. Doxxing used by right-wing groups were usually small-scale projects that were only known by hundreds if not thousands of people (compared to hundreds of thousands on Twitter). In the realm of giant social media platforms, one incorrect dox can lead an innocent person into a nightmare filled with harassment and hate. (Seems very ironic to me considering left-wing groups are promoting
...ses a threat of humiliation and maltreating from other individuals that can have a detrimental effect on their lives. A person can go from being a normal school student to a laughing stock on a popular social network or even trend from a emotionally stable individual to a deranged, depressed critter who now hides in the shadows of society hoping never to be revealed. The informative thought of the re-occurrence of public shaming throughout history from Bennett allows the reader to question if this is an issue that is perpetual and something that will never go away. Furthermore, the author conveys the idea that publicizing oneself can be a burden; the darkside of Internet fame. Wrapping up her article, Bennett portrays a warning to the reader stating, “Shame...will always be with you”(115). Harassment from Internet fame can alter a person's life-forever.
“Cyberbullying is a willful and repeated harm inflicted through the use of computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices,” stated by the Ophelia Project. Individuals should be prosecuted for statements made on social media. One reason individuals should be prosecuted is because of physical consequences to the victim. Another reason is because of mental effects that cyberbullying can have on the victim. Even though some people believe that free speech allows them to say what they want to but individuals should be prosecuted because the first amendment does have a limit on what you can say.
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The ideal society we would all be considered equal, but reality often defies this idealism. When we think of police officers, we think of people working hard to keep us all safe, but this may not always be the case in today 's society. This is demonstrated in an opinion piece published in the Miami Herald, entitled “Need a ‘big, bad dude’? White criminals need not apply” by Leonard Pitts Jr. The article opens by discussing the shooting of African-American man Terence Crutcher, where the police officer who shot him stated it was due to him not obeying her orders and reaching inside his SUV for a weapon. However, the video of the shooting shows that this did not happen. The article also goes on to discuss other African-Americans shot in recent
Society has many different views on crime and punishment. During earlier times, the crime fit the punishment meaning an “eye for an eye” approach. If a thief was caught, their hands would be cut off. If a man killed another man, they would be killed as well. They did not have a chance to tell their side of the story, if people thought they were guilty, they were. Much has changed in the way we handle crime in the world today. In today’s world, when a person commits a crime they have rights to a fair trial and have the luxury of the Fifth Amendment. Now when a killer kills someone they get to tell their side of the story and have to be proven guilty. However, it does not matter where you go, if there are people then there will always be crime.
Since these issues have caused negative diversity, social network accounts like Twitter has put up a campaign to stop the abuse of free speech that is spoken or written on social networks. In the article of Fox 12 Oregon, Twitter states that “The company said Tuesday that it has begun identifying people who have been banned for abusive behavior and it will stop them from creating new accounts” (Ortutay). The purpose to create the new idea is to keep a safe environment for Twitter is to minimize all the social negative abuse that goes on the internet to the real world. Like it says in the reading, “being able to connect with anyone in the world who has similar interests may mean that one’s own community becomes less important” (Giddens el al. 2017: 198). The quote answers the question of growing existing inequalities, the more the hatred on social networks, the more it goes viral
Have you ever thought about if the person next to you is a killer or a rapist? If so, what would you want from the government if the person had killed someone you know? Should they receive the death penalty? Murderers and rapists should be punished for the crimes they commit and should pay the price for their wrongdoing. Having the death penalty in our society is humane; it helps the overcrowding problem and gives relief to the families of the victims who had to go through an event such as murder.
In today’s society, everything is social media driven. With social media, communication around the world has never been easier. However, the media can often result in negative images, that can even lead to serious and permanent consequences. It also is very manipulative in how easily it can affect how people feel towards a certain topic. The mainstream media acknowledges racial profiling, done by police officers, more than ever. Racial profiling is a sensitive topic and it affects some more than others, such as minorities like African Americans. Many African Americans feel targeted by law enforcements because of the inequality they receive in communities. They feel uncomfortable around police officers
As social media has become more relevant in my generation, I have begun to see just how hate speech has evolved over time. Recently, a video from a campaign movement was posted on our class canvas page that expressed different stand points on why hate speech should be stopped. I gained a stronger opinion on banning hate speech, especially now that people are finding ways to use fighting words anonymously and not within a political view. In this video one of the interviewee’s mentioned how people online have the mindset that they do not have to take responsibility for the crud words they say over the internet because it is anonymous and they are not saying it directly to someone’s face they cannot be punished. Things that are viewed and said over social media can come off as very offensive. I think a common thing that is misunderstood by many is that there are different forms of hate speech and using social media to hide your identity is just one of them. We need to address all forms of hate speech and not just the cases seen in public
Schools tend to have cliques, small groups of narrow-minded people who criticize others. These teens in cliques parallel adults in today’s society. They prey on those who believe in different things, come from different backgrounds, and have different morals and values. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, three characters, Boo Radley, Tom Robinson, and Atticus Finch, all resemble mockingbirds, in that people persecute them for no reason.
In Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, the concept of Justice is a prominent theme throughout the play. Specifically, Antonio and Shylock’s different ideas of justice is what fuels their animosity towards each other and how it compares to the concept of justice of the Venetian court.. Antonio”s quest for “justice” is fueled by anti Semitism and hate, while Shylock’s is fueled by the need for revenge. Antonio’s concept of justice is the more barbaric because he robs the Jew of his basic identity, although Shakespeare makes out Shylock’s concept of justice to appear inhuman.
People tend to take the concept of freedom of speech in another way or to another level. According to Jeremy Waldron, in his famous book “The Harm in Hate Speech” he expresses his opinion about how the ‘harm’ in hate speech isn’t associated with what the speaker wants to say, instead it has everything to
Today’s justice system is broken and flawed, with a history of falsely convicting innocent people due to a variety of things, including eyewitness misidentification, invalid or improper forensic testing, and even racial bias on the jury. Many wrongful convictions happen as a result of a combination of these things, and other causes can contribute in each individual case (“causes”). Countless people throughout history have been punished for crimes they did not commit, and with recent advancements in DNA testing bringing about hundreds of exonerations of the wrongfully convicted, one has to wonder how many innocents have languished in prisons throughout history. With all the flaws and potential for error in our courtrooms today, justice can not be brought about by our current system; in order to repair it, we need governmental reform to promote true equity and prevent future miscarriages of justice.
People are free to share their thoughts, however like all freedoms, freedom of expression have limits. As Kriegel mentions in his article graffiti on the walls often in...