The Influence Of Hate Messages On The Internet

Racism is one of the biggest problems today. As we look back, a considerable measure of our history is based on racial discrimination, hatred, and African Americans being treated as slaves. The Shadow of Hate revolves around a history of intolerance in America, and how the origins of race affected American people. The Shadow of Hate was an eye opener as it shows how the native Americans, Japanese Americans, African Americans, Jews, and Hispanics were treated back in the days. In this paper, I am going to summarize the documentary and compose my perspectives on what I think about it.

It is about time we have some filters or establish and enforce legal ramifications on the use of the internet when hate speech is identified in all 50 states. These legal ramifications should be extended to people in authority who use information from the internet to get to their subordinates. The internet has radically changed the way we get and disseminate information. The internet is a place to express free speech and just be yourself, but this has many times come back to hunt users in a negative way. This paper will be looking at how schools, workplaces, and even other users misuse the idea of free speech on the internet and why we need to filter hate speech and introduce legal ramifications for these actions.

Every day millions of people log onto social media platforms. There has been much discussion on whether or not individuals should be prosecuted for statements made on social media platforms. Individuals should be prosecuted for statements made on social media. Although cyberbullying is just a small crime, people should still be punished for harsh or hateful remarks on social media. Having freedom of speech is a privilege not a right, we should focus on the bigger stories on cyberbullying, and individuals affected by cyberbullying are affected in all aspects of their life.

Every day, millions of people use social media to either converse with their peers or to post pictures. There has been much discussion on whether or not individuals should be prosecuted for rude statements made on social media. Individuals should not be prosecuted for derogative statements made on social media. Although some may say that prosecuting cyberbullies for statements made on social media is beneficial, it would have many negative consequences. Prosecuting individuals for statements made on the internet would discourage personal responsibility, be a violation of the first amendment, and squander tax payers' money.

Hateful words and actions can greatly impact someone's life. I am a key witness to this unfortunate event. There isn't a plausible excuse to why people decide to throw hateful remarks at others and I never understood it. I do know that you cannot let other people bring you down with the words they say. Take the insults and use them to build yourself into someone they will regret ever saying one word to.

If there is anything we know for sure, it is that the internet will never be the perfect virtual paradise we want it to be. Those who advocate regulating speech on the internet are trying to create an online utopia: a place where all expression is positive and building. But we are humans, and when we desire to

It seems like the issue of race has been the plague of this country for longer than anyone really has wanted with topics that should have been erased from history years prior with the civil rights movements of the 1960's. Race is what has been the main reason for the identification to discriminate towards minorities if it's either black, white or from a different country all together it leads to heated arguments that can spawn hatred on social media towards people from different walks of life. Nevertheless, even in the 21st century more than 50 years since the end of the civil rights movements, the idea of race is still in the spotlight even after all the progressive achievements that's been achieved towards the ignorance of different people

Out of all the thing the United States guarantees the first amendment is the one Americans put the highest enforce on. For this reason it is quite tricky to put regulations on the Internet pertaining to anything even if the thing in question is harmful to another human being. The United States Supreme Court has tried to make expectations to the freedom of speech rule but with no avail. This concludes that getting the United States government to create a law to regulate hate speech on the Internet is slightly out of the question

Technology has just made it easier for society to show this type of disrespect. Having the ability to do with it with an anonymous avatar gives a person a certain fell of stimulation. Majoo believed that’s its only people being nasty, and the groups that are important or influence our society, will be minimized in what actually might be important. Media has always been around but not the way it is today. Since there are so many different forms of media, these programs show us more incivility than we saw thirty years ago. Society has either became lazy or they just don’t have filters. “Polite interaction may no longer seem to yield solutions” (Heldenfels). Incivility is the very problem cause by the influences around us, without this technology advancing so much we wouldn’t have people such as “web trolls.” I am not saying this technology has ruined us but our disrespect and cowardness has ruined our civility and

Spreading hate has been a thing ever since humans exist, same with online hate and the internet. We live with the misconception that just because no one can see our face we can do what we want. We firmly seem to believe that we are anonymous on the internet, but that’s not the case.

In 2014 there was a real life experience of a man who was posting rude and offensive comments online about his ex wife and people were wondering if he was making threats towards her or if they were just expressing his free speech. In the first amendment your aren't protected from making true threats to anyone online or in person and this man was supposedly threatening us ex wife so she took him to court. In court the man said that the things he had been posting weren't threats but just lyrics he had been writing as he was also a rapper. After hours in court the jury came to a conclusion that what he posted were actual threats and he was sentenced to prison. I also found that among adult internet users, 40 percent of them have experienced some form of harassment, 8 percent have been physically threatened and 6 percent have been sexually harassed. I am amazed at the amount of people that have been harassed online because the world is becoming far more politically correct which I thought would have come to the conclusion of being more restricted meaning less harassment.

An example of what the outcome of hate mail can be is Megan Meier. Megan Meier was a “bubbly” 13-year-old girl who suffered from depression; she met a boy online who quickly became her online friend. They held conversations for as long as six weeks until one day the “boy” abruptly ended their friendship saying that Megan was cruel, fat and a slut. She committed suicide the next day; her family later foound out that the boy was Megan’s rival’s mother. If we had internet censorship when this was going on, Megan Meier could’ve still been alive.

Exposure to the verbal assaults of Hate Speech has empirically shown both physical effects and emotional traumas. The following ailments have been linked to those exposed to racist speech: high blood pressure, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, drug use, and depression, to name a few. For women, sexualized Hate Speech can lead to self-objectification which is associated with eating disorders. All of the previously mentioned effects have also been shown to decrease academic performance, a serious impact on young people (Nielsen). These outcomes expose the pernicious nature of Hate Speech; words are not just sounds, but they result in tangible negative effects. Words leading to such destruction should not be allowed in any society. Hate Speech can also result in direct harm by inciting others to behave abusively. As Susan Benesch, a United Nations commissioned legal scholar explains,“Speech alone cannot bring about genocide," but it is "a catalyst to spread violence” (Magni). Through peer pressure and brainwashing, public expression of Hate Speech results in an increase of discrimination against other groups. The UN recognizes this fact and has advocated for laws against the “dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or hatred,” which the United States has refused to honor (Sanneh). There are many examples proving the validity of the United Nations’ assertion that the allowance of Hate Speech can result in atrocities by uniting a community, but one showing the true extent of this effect can be seen in the Rwandan genocide. Radio Television Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) is a radio station that broadcasted from 1993 to 1994, spreading racial propaganda against Tutsis and moderate Hutus. The station is regarded as having played a crucial role in uniting the racist cause. One study by David Yanagizawa of the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University uncovered a direct link between the RTLM broadcasts and an increase in violence leading to 45,000 Tutsi deaths (Magni). One victim and survivor of the Rwandan Genocide is Adeline. At the age of 19, the genocide began and she saw members of her

Ever since the Internet became such a large source of information in our lives, there has been a group of people who believed it need be cleansed of certain material.  These people believe that groups, corporations, and the government have the right to block whatever material they deem objectionable.  They are quite simply wrong.  The First Amendment guarantees our right to freedom of expression.  Furthermore, the ability to block or ban these sites does not exist.  There have been several attempts to enforce some sort of standard of morals on the Internet.  The online community has always fiercely opposed these intrusions on its Civil Liberties and privacy.  One of the most famous cases was short lived the Communications

In Kassidy McMillan’s, “Exposure to Hate” WP, she explains how hate speech is involved in our society, and how it is not. She writes about the article titled, “We All Need to Support Hate Speech” by Lee Rowland which describes how hate speech should be exposed to us in our youth so we are aware of the negative aspects in our world. This specific article speaks about how freedom of speech is part of being an adult. Rowland goes on to speak about how it is crucial to live up to our First Amendment rights, and use our freedom of speech to our benefit. We are the generation that can make a change, and Rowland suggests that we use our rights to make a difference. Kassidy mentions how we will become culture shocked if hate isn’t unveiled to us when we first witness a form of hatred in our world. She gives us her personal experience with this dilemma and how she was affected by it in her high school years. Her opinion on this topic states that one is never too young to be educated about what’s going on in the society that they live in. Contrasting from that, some may believe that people shouldn’t be exposed to hatred when they’re younger, because they eventually will be anyways… so why ruin their youth? That specific side of the debate believes that people deserve to stay happy and pure for as long as they’d wish to be, without the worry of the overbearing hate that exists in our world. In the “We All Need to Support Free Speech” itself the author, Lee