IT Write Up Preparation for Professional Practices Discussion 2022

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Preparation for professional practices
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9/28/2019

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This discussion is based on researching the topic ‘hate-speech vs free-speech on SM (SM)’.
With the help of this discussion, free expressions on SM will be explored. In general, hate-
speech on SM can be seen as a big global comparison. In this context, it has been found that
violence attributed to online-hate-speech has been improved all across the world. In this way,
global societies facing this trend should deal with common questions of free-speech as well
as censorship on broadly utilised tech platforms. Therefore, this topic is related to the social
issue in and around information technologies. In this way, at the end of this writing, a concise
summary will be provided.
Nowadays, SM can be seen as the most progressive and modern form if interpersonal
communication all across the world (Yaraghi, 2018). With SM, the world has grown
considerably over the last decade. In this context, it is well-known that almost 2/3 of the total
users are already accessing SM with the help of their smartphones, which is a good sign of
digital world development. Subsequently, based on the above-mentioned data and an
expected hike in mobile traffic, it can anticipate that total users accessing SM on smartphones
will definitely increase in the near future. As we know that there have been many hate posts
that were directed at groups, personalities, nations and most importantly races (Naughton,
2019).
SM always challenges the legal or ethical aspects of social speech. In this way, with its
boundless form, digital or SM naturally brings comparisons amid diverse locales. In this
context, gaining the right balance amid the protection of freedom and the wish to control the
racist content of an individual’s expression has become a great challenge on the Internet
today. However, the Internet as an international system is decentralized which is putting
measures in the market. In addition to that, laws doffer broadly from one country to another,
while ranging amid highly conservative to extremely liberal. In this way, the chosen topic is
clearly finding SM from a wide range lies in hate-speech to free-speech (Berger, 2018).
In this modern era, Facebook is identifying hate content in the form of attacks where an
individual’s national ethnicity, origin, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion as well as
gender has been highlighted. It is disappointing that the aforementioned issues are addressed
in SM posts and that too on a regular basis (Laurell & Sandstorm, 2016).

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Hate-Speech on SM
As per the research results, hate-speech is that speech that is typically designed to encourage
or promote hatred based on race, national origin, religion, and ethnicity. It has been found
that hate-speech poses vexing as well as complex issues for modern people’s Right to
freedom. In addition to that, it has been found that hate-speech is malicious and hostile
speech. Hate-speech usually has a biased objective as well as is directed to a group of public
due to some innate features or characteristics (Tiago & Verissimo, 2014). In the context of
hate-speech, there can be a number of characteristics that may include colour, gender,
ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, nationality, and physical disability. Some other researchers
or scholars defined hate-speech as a speech exterior the law which significantly attacks a
single person or group based on certain characteristics like religion, race, gender, ethnic
origin, disability, and sexual orientation. In this way, the concept of hate-speech is being
applied to nefarious intentions since when British people adopted the Divide and Rule policy
(Laurell & Sandstorm, 2016). The hate-speech on SM is getting worse day-by-day, while it
also spreading negative emotions, beliefs and thereby hurting people’s sentiments largely.
This is because in past British people attempted to initiate tensions amid the two major
religious groups include Muslims and Hindus. In this way, the trend is continuously affecting
communities even today (Keller, 2013).
Free-speech on SM
In general, free-speech can also be known as freedom of speech is a principle that supports
the freedom of a community or an individual. Free-speech is used to articulate the opinions as
well as ideas without any fear of censorship, retaliation, or legal sanctions. Free-speech on
SM generally includes the right to speak liberally in order to express one’s innovative and
free ideas (Berger, 2018). It has been found that one of the main purposes of the First
Amendment’s Free-speech Clause was to encourage an uninhibited marketplace of ideas
while using SM sites for effective transmission of those ideas. It has been identified by the
Supreme Court that the Internet with SM sites are those important places that are essential for
global people to ‘Speak and listen’ (Yaraghi, 2018).
In addition, SM websites considerably allow users to post their own content freely. On the
other hand, SM always connect users with each other, while allowing them to seek out new
friends. In the context of free-speech on SM platforms, millennial users can also send content