Freedom of speech in social networking media

Name: Course title: Instructor: Institution: Date Due: The Impact of Social Networking Media Serices In this face of the 21st century period, there has emerged a new wave of social media technologies that have had a great impact and more so transformed the many of the society’s aspects. Face book, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and others have a huge global following and have influenced the political, social and information activities of persons or organisation in the global perspective. However, in the recent times, controversy over the kind of information exhibited in these social media platforms have sparked responses from other members of the community with regard to the ethics and philosophers in technology. While this reactions may be challenged by the day-to-day development of these new technologies, there is an urgent need to observe the ethical aspect of free speech in social networking (Vallor, 2012). As social networking continues to develop, there is a growing concern by many people on the abuse of the rights of speech and communication on its platform. The misuse especially has been with regard to “free “expressions and speeches which are allowed in the media platforms by these companies. In these social media, it is common nowadays to view comments, postings, photos and videos, which may not even follow sound ethical and moral standards of the human nature. This is irrespective of the consequences such comments or action may pause to the rest of the populace such as children. In posting such irregular and incoherent messages, it seems that people are no longer observant on ethical and moral obligations towards others. This also brings us to another question of whether the social media companies are considerate on this situation (Wells, 2012). However, these speech and freedom rights should not protected under the first amendment, the best way top curb this phenomena is to urge the concerned companies to retake measures to regulate the type of mess...