Many have taken advantage of free speech because they claim it to be an absolute right rather than a privilege and as a result have created a negative effect on the rest of society. People are influenced in various levels, some more than others by the material they see and hear. Hateful material is broadcasted through radio stations, televisions, and throughout the Internet over and over again as a means to corrupt people's’ minds. Majority of the people affected tend to be the younger generations whose opinions and beliefs are still being developed and end up becoming compromised by the negative material they are exposed to. Nowadays the Internet has become an important medium for freedom of expression. Anyone can express their …show more content…
Defame.”(Mike Keefe). Keefe’s illustration is reflecting how hate groups are ultimately using the Internet to create a mass of hate against certain groups of individuals by ranting and taunting them. Since the world of Internet can be used by anyone and is being used constantly, it creates a whole new meaning of speech. Due to the world wide connection of the internet, various hate groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan are using social media sites to spread their beliefs and opinions while at the same time recruiting more followers which are primarily composed of young individuals. They can easily lure them since children are the easiest to deceive. Then those children will try to make their friends join them. It would appear that restrictions would be the key to solving this dilemma however as Sean McElwee claimed," stricter regulation of internet speech will not be popular with the libertarian-minded citizens of the United States, but it is necessary” (Sean McElwee). It would be impossible to go through hundreds of thousands of posts to see which contain hate speech and decide on whether or not it can be considered as a threat. Many people have commented that the targeted should simply ignore all the terrible comments made at them and to focus more on the positive posts