Censorship

In a world of free speech how free are we really? Many of my past posts have talked about very controversial topics and considering we are in an election year it only makes sense. Many people disagree with each other and every day it also seems like we are being divided more and more. Every opinion and every side is taken as a vote for or against the other side of government and it’s hard to distinguish what’s real, what’s fake, and what’s partisan. Fake news is a topic President Trump has been talking about ever since he entered office and I feel like many people are opening their eye to what is really going on. Many of the videos I have cited in the past have been taken off platforms like Youtube and Facebook and it makes you think who really has control over what we see on the internet. After all we build these companies up and then the government uses them to control the masses. If it was really free speech no matter what was being said it would be kept up and people would work on debunking theories. Censorship in my opinion adds strength to the opposing argument because the people should make decisions on what to believe and what they watch. After all just do some research on MediaMatters for America, a non-profit organization that “comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.”