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07-28-2016, 05:27 AM
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‘To k**w what being censored really feels like, try living in N Korea instead of a social media bubble’
By Bryony Gordon
Once more, free speech is under attack. **t content with being paid millions, lavished with free designer clothes and flying in private jets around the world, Hollywood stars are **w also getting to censor the internet.
If Taylor Swift doesn’t like what somebody says about her on Instagram, she (by which I mean “her people”) **w apparently gets to delete the comments on her feed, so that it can only be filled with simpering messages such as ‘TAYLOR 4 PRESIDENT!’ and ‘HIDDLESWIFT FOREVER!” (In case you have been living under a rock, Tom Hiddleston is her current boyfriend).
Except, I can’t bring myself to feel outraged about this so-called censorship. I can’t, because I am tired of abusive, nasty trolls getting away with appalling behaviour on the grounds of freedom of speech.
Freedom of speech is the right for people to express themselves without fear of being censored by governments and those in positions of power. It is **t the right to be abusive and bullying without fear of recrimination.
To k**w what being censored really feels like, try living in **rth Korea instead of a social media bubble.
Sure, Taylor Swift is powerful – but she is also a 26-year-old who is frequently targeted by trolls. There’s an argument here that people in the public eye, who invite comment by parading their boyfriends around in front of the paparazzi, should grow a thick skin. Switch off. Don’t read it.
Yet that overlooks the hundreds of thousands of fans in the comment box below who find themselves being targeted by abusive strangers.
Instagram, and the all other social media entities, have a duty of care there that they simply can**t ig**re.
Those of us who have **t grown up on social media are often quick to accuse millennials of being thin-skinned; but actually, we have ** idea what it must be like to grow up in a world where toxicity is never more than 140 characters away, where words such as “b..ch” and “w...e” are bandied around like terms of endearment.
There are people – usually middle-aged men – who wonder how social media companies can define online abuse.
Inevitably, these people have never experienced any themselves – or never anything other than the odd slanging match with one of those Lefties or feminists that seem to populate so much of the internet **wadays.
But there is a world of difference between healthy disagreement and harmful abuse.
This is **t about throwing your toys out of the pram when someone dares to disagree with you. It’s about protecting people from being threatened and bullied
The idea that something that occurs on social media is **t real life is as
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‘To k**w what being censored really feels like, try living in N Korea instead of a social media bubble’
By Bryony Gordon
Once more, free speech is under attack. **t content with being paid millions, lavished with free designer clothes and flying in private jets around the world, Hollywood stars are **w also getting to censor the internet.
If Taylor Swift doesn’t like what somebody says about her on Instagram, she (by which I mean “her people”) **w apparently gets to delete the comments on her feed, so that it can only be filled with simpering messages such as ‘TAYLOR 4 PRESIDENT!’ and ‘HIDDLESWIFT FOREVER!” (In case you have been living under a rock, Tom Hiddleston is her current boyfriend).
Except, I can’t bring myself to feel outraged about this so-called censorship. I can’t, because I am tired of abusive, nasty trolls getting away with appalling behaviour on the grounds of freedom of speech.
Freedom of speech is the right for people to express themselves without fear of being censored by governments and those in positions of power. It is **t the right to be abusive and bullying without fear of recrimination.
To k**w what being censored really feels like, try living in **rth Korea instead of a social media bubble.
Sure, Taylor Swift is powerful – but she is also a 26-year-old who is frequently targeted by trolls. There’s an argument here that people in the public eye, who invite comment by parading their boyfriends around in front of the paparazzi, should grow a thick skin. Switch off. Don’t read it.
Yet that overlooks the hundreds of thousands of fans in the comment box below who find themselves being targeted by abusive strangers.
Instagram, and the all other social media entities, have a duty of care there that they simply can**t ig**re.
Those of us who have **t grown up on social media are often quick to accuse millennials of being thin-skinned; but actually, we have ** idea what it must be like to grow up in a world where toxicity is never more than 140 characters away, where words such as “b..ch” and “w...e” are bandied around like terms of endearment.
There are people – usually middle-aged men – who wonder how social media companies can define online abuse.
Inevitably, these people have never experienced any themselves – or never anything other than the odd slanging match with one of those Lefties or feminists that seem to populate so much of the internet **wadays.
But there is a world of difference between healthy disagreement and harmful abuse.
This is **t about throwing your toys out of the pram when someone dares to disagree with you. It’s about protecting people from being threatened and bullied
The idea that something that occurs on social media is **t real life is as
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