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RE: WE NEED A WILD WEST IN SOCIAL MEDIA... SADLY STEEMIT AIN'T IT.
Hello @mudcat36, Uhm... I don't think we need a wild west in social media anymore, we're on the wild west now.. people are killing each other using their words and profiles in social media. I'm sorry because english is not my native language.
so far, I've seen many people use their freedom of speech right in this platform, posting about their beliefs, ideas and people can choose to support or just ignore it.
I live in a place where I don't have free speech and daily am amazed at those of my fellow citizens who don't even notice the loss of this natural right
where do you live? so sad to hear that, do you think because people are busy struggling to stay alive has make them not realize about this basic right?
Hmmm. I don't believe people are using their words to kill each other as such. Yes words can be used to recruit others and yes we have seen extremism of various sorts spring up. The problem is that these platforms aren't open. I can't help but feel an open source model like we have on the steem block chain would allow for contraries to weigh in unlike what we have on most platforms. Opposing views grounded in reality tend to wither extremism, racism, and violence. It doesn't do away with conflict though. There is no utopia out there and man kinds search for a utopia is littered with the bodies of millions. Absolute peace is a noble ambition, but not a reality. Contraries and opposing views will always exist and if shoved into corners or oppressed fester and grow. By limiting what we say by force we are simply inviting more violence. It's not just the hate speech that's the villain on most sites. It's just one head on the hydra. The 11 million people who will die in Yemen as a result of western intervention aren't being killed by hateful bigots online, but rather by governments/special interest that endorse the suppression of free expression as well as anything else that is contrary to what they want the population to believe. So when people begin to question what is occurring it's simply shut down or silenced. However open platforms should exist for questioning of all things and the challenging of all views to occur. Yes people will advocate violence, yes people will say horrible hurtful things, yes we will always differing opinions. These things need to exist in the open where all can see them for what they are and what they represent. I do have faith that when given the choice most of humanity would make the right decision. The key thing is allowing a place for that decision to be made. Will words be used to incite violence? Of course. They always have been. It's how we get soldiers to go to war or someone encourages an act of violence against another. Will violence always exist and people die as a result of it? Yep. I wish it wasn't true but it is. These things have always and will always exist as a part of humans being humans. Is suppressing what people say a solution? No. It's never worked and there is no example in history where that type of measure doesn't result in deaths. People may use their social media profiles to recruit people to a belief, but these extreme beliefs already existed long before computers did. Bad ideologies have always existed and will always exist. But a truly open platform where nothing can be hidden and everyone has the chance to see it for what it is provides us all with an opportunity to deal with such things and make the choice. With all information open I'd like to believe that people would make the right choices. But the limiting of freedom of expression has never worked historically and usually grows into something far deadlier later on killing far more people than the hateful words someone uses online. Thank you so much for the taking the time to read my post. Your English is good by the way. :) In regards to where I live? I'm in the UK. I don't think people are focused as such on staying alive as much as their just happy and well fed into not caring about anything more than their self interest. Being told by government what they can and can't say doesn't bother them anymore than a camera on every street corner does. More arrest are made under our anti terrorism laws for things like dog fouling, littering, and similar low level offences yet the public believe these things exist to keep them safe. But again, historically these types of things have never worked well for the people of any country once they creep in. This is just my observation of course. Could be wrong. Thanks for the comment and keep on steeming. :)
absolutely agree with you! so do you think this platform just the same as other platform too, I mean in terms of "freedom of speech". well.. I am someone who believe that There's no absolute freedom in this world, real or virtual .. hehehe.
anyway... I have featured this post on the pay it forward curation contest this week, I'm attracted to your ideas and "rant", how can UK has something like that implemented, what's really going on? is that the price of globalisation and democracy?
Thank you so much for your kindness. :) In regards to absolute freedom? I kinda believe it's in our wiring as a species but 10,000 years of statism has kinda left us wondering around with that perpetual feeling of having lost our keys. lol. In regards to the UK... Well to piggy back a famous quote, the public exchanged their freedoms for safety and woke without either. I can't say if it's a bi product of democracy or globalization though. I'd like to point the finger at a lot but in reality we as a people allowed it to happen. So I guess the collective mirror is where I tend to look. I daily make efforts to be as self reliant as I can in my life here and give government the absolute minimum I have to. From how I source my food to how I manage my finances. I hate the idea of any of my tax money going towards fueling wars of aggression or feeding a corrupt banking system so I do my best to with hold my compliance by with holding as much as I can without crossing the lines of the law. If I had more of a choice I'd with hold more but I don't want to be fined or sent to jail. Sad and bitter realities I suppose. Again thank you so much for your support. I founded an initiative on Steemit called Newbie Resteem Day that's focused on helping other content creators out by providing free resteems to increase post exposure. We can be found at @newbieresteemday Always feel free to give me a shout if ever you have any posts you'd like some help with. It's all for free and community run. It's been a pleasure to meet you so don't be a stranger and always feel free to pop bye and say hi. :)
same here.. I hate it when our government and house of representatives raised the tax for a pack of cigarrette and at the same time they're tend to corrupt, living in luxorious life, buy a high end cars and blaming the poor people being in poverty because too much cigarretes consumption.
thank you @mudcat36, glad that I found another @newbieresteemday here. will do that in the future if I happened to create a good post like yours, hehehe. My best only on commenting but terrible on posting, LOL.