Sister Linda K Burton said in the April 2014 General Conference of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints:
So is it the job of social media to censor the content that we see and do we really want them to play Big Brother (Orwell) to us controlling everything that we see read and hear in the nearly 2 hours that most Americans spend on social media (Asano) or is it our job to be diligent and create a filter within ourselves, and within our children? Many people claim that it is because of these articles that Donald Trump was elected to office. But they are often misleading and spread false narratives that divide our society. No decent person wants to be scrolling through Facebook and have pornography or other graphic images appear on their screen or have fake news articles that are designed to generate clicks and traffic towards a site. Many would argue that it is the Job of the social media platforms to censor their content. So who decides what is right and what is wrong? Is it the job of social media companies to filter the content that we can see or it our own?
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That are targeted on the grounds of spreading messages that are harmful to society just as much if not more than the videos containing child pornography and instructions on how to commit suicide. As mentioned earlier in this essay there are numerus examples of censorship and unfair targeting of conservative profiles. With stories like these it is easy to see why some form of censorship is necessary but what about censorship of opinions and ideologies that the left leaning social media companies don’t agree with.
There are other instances that have been found on The “Youtube kids” app which is supposed to be safe for children where during the video someone will come on and give instructions for suicide saying something to the affect of “remember horizontal for attention vertical for results” as they point to there arm.(Criss). According to a video that has gone viral in the past couple weeks there are instances of softcore child pornography going on in which perverts take videos of young girls often around the age if not younger then 10 or 12 and time stamp where they are in “compromising positions” (Mattwhatitis) With numbers like that its no wonder that social media companies do there best to censor out explicit and sexual content however despite their best efforts things still get through that should not be seen by children, or really anyone for that matter. Many people think that censorship a good thing after all you wouldn’t want your child running into pornography while scrolling through Facebook or watching a YouTube video according to an article by the American Psychological Association the average age of exposer is 13.37 years old with the youngest participant in the study being just 5 years old it was also found that of these exposers 43.5% of them where accidental 33.4% of them where intentional and 17.2% of them where forced. However, there is still the ethical question of censorship. This is a faulty argument because the bill of rights applies to the powers of the government not private companies. What can be done about this many have said that censorship by social media companies is unconstitutional and so it should be stopped by the government on the grounds of the first amendment. And this apparent bias has many people asking the question is it ethical for social media companies to simply ban or subdue speech that they do not like. ” (Zanotti) While maybe not the best thing to be saying it’s at least not open seeded racism against 2/3rds of the American public.
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