By guest blogger Caleb:
This past week I feel like I've become much more aware of just how much hate speech is on the Internet and I found a couple of examples of it leaking onto the website Facebook, a website that many of us use daily. this first link is to an article about a cop who had to be investigated by the secret service after he posted some pictures teenagers with automatic weapons who used President Obama shirts as targets.
http://www.complex.com/city-guide/2012/01/arizona-cop-takes-picture-of-gun-toting-teens-holding-bullet-riddled-obama-t-shirt
This past week I feel like I've become much more aware of just how much hate speech is on the Internet and I found a couple of examples of it leaking onto the website Facebook, a website that many of us use daily. this first link is to an article about a cop who had to be investigated by the secret service after he posted some pictures teenagers with automatic weapons who used President Obama shirts as targets.
http://www.complex.com/city-guide/2012/01/arizona-cop-takes-picture-of-gun-toting-teens-holding-bullet-riddled-obama-t-shirt
The second link is a little hard to look at but it is important because these people are posting these things on Facebook which is interesting because they are not anonymous to us as users. *This is upsetting* http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-40-absolutely-worst-people-in-america
Do you see Facebook as a avenue where Hate Speech could gain momentum?
So the shooting up of the Obama t-shirt was just a "political statement" eh? Well, I bet Pat Shearer never did that to any other t-shirt with a US President on it.
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