Word Wars Over the past decade technology has enabled people to express and showcase the right to freedom of speech in ways that they never could before. Technology promotes freedom of speech but also facilitates hate speech, thus bringing countries into an ongoing brawl. Through text messages, Facebook live, photographs and even videos, the age of the internet has exploded into a time of instant knowledge and access to anything a person has to say, and freely doing so in that matter. In countries where this right is oppressed and real weapons are no use, violent words and actions through the internet has been the result that many have gone to in expressing these undermined struggles (245). Julius Malema, a former South African leader chanted words from an old anti-apartheid anthem that enraged Afrikaners and set off a cultural epidemic on the internet. The words “Dubuiu iBunu” meaning “shoot the Boer” instantly affected not only white farmers, but their counterparts across the world as well. In the coming years, many were killed along with their wives and children due to pure internet violence that was rationed into cruel misunderstandings. This saying was used in comparison to Irish Republican …show more content…
Though this will always be a debate, a policymaking tool is needed to draw the line between speech that should be sanctioned and speech that must be tolerated in the name of freedom of expression (250). According to the First Amendment, the law protects even the most offensive and obnoxious language. In doing so, a policy would disrupt the flow of law causing not only chaos with outside parties, but with the natural known “free” life. With increasing cognizant in communication around the world, a policy like this can and projectively will ruin itself despite the “good intentions” it has to protect the citizens of the