Blog Post 3: The Internet and its Effect on Free Speech

Professor Smith spoke about the the internet and how that effects free speech. There are plenty of instances on free speech and how the government has dealt with free speech on the internet. The government (Supreme Court) has stated that the internet is a area that people can use and have a right to free speech. For example a blog is considered free speech. Not only is it important that the internet allows you to have free speech but that it is preserved because it is a place where we can express ourselves and our feelings on something just like if we were to do in person. As time as gone on and the internet has gotten more sophisticated and since it has gotten more sophisticated we have seen the threat to freedom of speech on the internet become more and more of a problem. For example the incident that occurred with Facebook violating peoples privacy and then being accused of having connections with Russia which sensors the peoples internet access made a lot of people worried that facebook was picking and choosing which articles would get really big and which ones wouldn't and that it was suppressing our freedom of speech. This turned out to be completely false and inaccurate but that still didn't stop people from speculating and making false accusations.