Social Media Censorship?

Our first world country we are fully connect to social media such as Twitter and Facebook. These social media sites allow users to post statuses for friends to see. Being a teenager i feel that some may use the platforms to vent of anger, sadness or even joy. In some cases we teenagers can abuse these sites by posting sensitive  topics. These sites fully allow freedom of speech therefore allowing people to post things from: sensitive images, swearing and gender or racially suggestive things.

In my opinion everyone has the right to express their own opinion and have the accessibility to free 

speech. Without this we would not have any truth and real way to show our own opinion that we feel. For example if we did have censorship in countries such as Libya when the Dictator "Muammar Gaddafi" was still in power the greater world would have no way to see what the terrible man did to his citizens. 

Now on the topic of racial comments and sexual orientaitonal comments. My view on these comments is thats 100% fine. Personally i don't let words hurt me. Words only hurt you only if you give the word power. For example one of my good friends was homosexual. He would constantly get slurs saying he is a "Fag", "Faggot" etc. People at my elementary school my my friend feel like trash. If i was in his position I would surely feel bad for myself. But how even though he was getting all the slurs he didn't even care. I asked him why he was fine with all the insults. He replied with "In mind i know that I am human being just like anyone else and at at the end of our life we all die human beings" From there he told me that he isn't going to let someones words hurt me so if i remove the value from those words they are just wasting their breath.  Racial, Gender and Sexual Orientation slurs will always exist, censoring statuses would deny the users of their constitutional right of freedom of speech and the point of social media.  In Conclusion i think that social media does not need to censor the statuses of the users and should be left the way it is. 

Here are some example where censorship of internet has affected counties: 

Censorship in Turkey

Censorship used in Russia To keep Putin in power

Censorship In North Korea used to keep Un in Power

Using social media for shaming

The Idea of shaming children on social media has both pros and cons dependent from the perspect of who is giving or reciving the online shame. In the shaming of Rusty Fred and all shaming related to the appearance of their son or daughter is just plain out childish. By altering their appearance it could disturb or ruin their social life, school life and public reputation. By Altering the appearance of child you are making them reluctant to go to school therefore preventing the chance of changing the problem they had in the beginning (Bad grades).

The Rusty Fred article reminds me of the youtube video "Facebook Parenting: For the troubled teen."

The video "Facebook Parenting: For the troubled teen." reminds me of Rusty Fred because it is similar in the shaming aspect. The video shows Jordan (45) reading what his angry fifth-teen year old said about him on Facebook. From calling his dad names to accusing him of sleeping with his sister. After reading the whole post and justify what was true and false, he proceeded to place his daughter's laptop on the dirt he was was standing on. After placing the laptop on the ground "This right here is my .45," he says, moving a pistol into the frame. He repeatedly took shots into the laptop giving a reason before pulling the trigger. I don't think that using the pistol to destroy the laptop was necessary, it could have been replaced with simply destroying it with his bare hands

My opinion on this way of punishment is the most ideal way punishment should be given to children. No, I don't mean go and buy a gun an start shooting everything your child take pleasure in doing. I mean compared to physical punishment such as "spanking" or "no dinner" taking away what the child like would be a valuable substitute to traditional ways of punishment.

Some other videos of Parents destroying technology:

Dad Goes Crazy Smashing Daughter's Phone With Bat For Sexting
Boy cries because mother cancels account
Mom takes away Grand Theft Auto