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The Promise and Peril of a Global Conversation
Imagine trying to tell your friends about something important you just saw online. You start to speak, “You guys are not going to believe what Trump just tweeted…”—but before you can finish, your phone buzzes. And again. And again. The constant stream of notifications, arguments, and alerts becomes so distracting that you give up. “You know what? Never mind.”
This overwhelming scenario, drawn from a Vox analysis of Twitter, captures the modern experience of being online. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Platforms like Twitter were founded on a utopian vision of a digital “town square,” a place where everyone could have a voice. As media scholar Tarleton Gillespie described the early ideal, if you simply “get the barriers out of the way, speech will happen, rich discussion will happen, the best ideas will bubble forth.”
This article explores the complicated clash between that ideal of free speech and the harsh reality of online harassment. By examining the key arguments and platform challenges, we can better understand one of the most critical digital citizenship issues of our time
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