Even though I have the right to the freedom of speech, I’ve never felt free to say anything in public. In America, censorship is done by society rather than by the government. According to ABC News, Justine Sacco, the communications director for Match.com, was fired for a tweet she made joking about how privileged white people are. Despite the fact that it was a private tweet made to her friends, she received major backlash from social media after the tweet was leaked. The public condemned Sacco and her family and ruined her career. …show more content…
At the utterance of any statement remotely politically incorrect, members of society will work non-stop to tear them apart. Subsequently, people are forced to calculate every social media post to ensure that it won’t result in their condemnation. My teachers feel pressured to sanitize their messages to their friends or former students – my friends deliberate over whether if something is acceptable to post online – my seminar class spend more time mitigating and circumventing the topic rather than discussing it – and I find myself hesitating to speak on controversial