Title of the Essay, Author, and Date

T rusting the Free speech online by Kate Baucherel (November 25, 2015)

Title of the Reflection

Credibility of Free Speech

First Impression

An Article about free speech and how credible it is and how can we trust them.

Quote

When we link information in the Web, we enable ourselves to discover facts, create ideas, buy and sell things, and forge new relationships at a speed and scale that was unimaginable in the analogue era. These connections transform presidential elections, overturn authoritarian regimes, power huge businesses and enrich our social networks.

Reflection Paper

It is easy for people to trust everything, we place our trust to everything unless it breaks our trust and we have second-guesses to trust it again. People tend to trust everything that is in World Wide Web, I often here people say that they trust this because they have read it in the internet. People also likes to share their thoughts, opinions, and their voice in the internet this is because we tolerate free speech, other people don't question other people's opinions or they seldom does, this is because people respect other people's free speech. We don't want people to be angered or to be humiliated when we question their opinions. There are also other people who gets mad to people who corrects someone's opinions they say that just respect their post because of free speech, but I think we now should criticize free speech specially when the facts are not accurate. With the invention of the World Wide Web the sharing of ideas, opinions, and thoughts became a lot easier, and there are more stories which isn't true, they were just created by people for the mere fun of it. People exercise their freedom of speech by sharing what they want, they don't do extensive research before posting it, it's like going to war without knowing what the enemy is capable of, but is the content of what they share that they should be careful of because they are feeding themselves and other people who trust them with false information and it can lead to the embarrassment of people.

Isis also shared their views and encouraged other people to believe them and follow them, they used the free use of social media and they also used the privilege of having free speech. It all depends on what we trust we must know everything before we believe in someone’s opinion.

5 things I've learned

1. Not all free speech are true, factual, and evidence biased.

2. People in the internet can become an expert at everything

3. Review before sharing

4. Isis started recruiting through Social Medias

5. COINS theory

5 integrative questions

1. Why are free speech not reliable? 

2. How can people in the internet become expert at everything

3. What should we do before sharing?

4. How did the ISIS recruit their members?

5. What is the COINS theory?