{"id":57171,"date":"2018-02-26T21:57:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T21:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.glaciermediadigital.ca\/?p=57171"},"modified":"2018-02-27T16:22:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T16:22:09","slug":"responsibility-of-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lodestardigital.ca\/index.php\/2018\/02\/26\/responsibility-of-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"What Logan Paul and Monica Lewinsky can teach us about responsibility of speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago, YouTube suspended ads on Logan Paul\u2019s channel temporarily. YouTube released a statement.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn response to Logan Paul\u2019s recent pattern of behavior, we\u2019ve temporarily suspended ads on his channels.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you\u2019re wondering who this kid is, this 22-year-old vlogger has more than 16 million subscribers and earns up to $1.2 million\/ month in ad revenue from his videos. The reasons YouTube made this decision are probable. Paul has demonstrated countless <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2018\/01\/a-social-media-stars-error\/549479\/\">disturbing behavior<\/a> in his videos, ranging from tasering a dead rat to showing a dead body in Japan\u2019s Aokigahara forest (also known as the \u201cSuicide Forest\u201d). I can name all his reckless incidents but that would just be a waste of your time. To stop you from shaking your head, let\u2019s talk about the responsibility of speech on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking back on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/monica_lewinsky_the_price_of_shame#t-1334566\">Monica Lewinsky\u2019s talk<\/a> at Ted Talk in 2015, I realized she is one of the first publicized cyberbullying victims since the digital revolution. Lewinsky shared her price of shame from the scandal that had put her reputation in the dark for ten years.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cEvery day online, people, especially young people\u00a0who are not developmentally equipped to handle this,\u00a0are so abused and humiliated\u00a0that they can&#8217;t imagine living to the next day,\u00a0and some, tragically, don&#8217;t,\u00a0and there&#8217;s nothing virtual about that.\u201d Said Monica Lewinsky at TED2015.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When TED posted her talk, negative and offensive comments flooded the comment section. The director of social media at TED, Nadia Petschek Rawls, took <a href=\"https:\/\/ideas.ted.com\/want-to-help-prevent-online-bullying-comment-on-facebook\/\">actions<\/a> with her team and started deleting those comments and responding to positive comments.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAfter hours spent boosting the positive comments and purging most of the brutish ones, the tide started to turn. People started to write things like,\u00a0\u2018Brave woman. My first reaction was negative before I even clicked the link \u2014 then I realized that was the whole point and why she was the perfect person to give this talk.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The modern-day Internet users have become less empathic and desensitized towards cyberbullying, trolling and invasion of privacy from the culture we permitted (i.e. <a href=\"https:\/\/broadly.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/7xz8kb\/how-meme-culture-is-getting-teens-into-marxism\">meme<\/a> culture) and worsened via the unlimited accessibility of information.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s tricky to govern the Internet when it involves the freedom of speech. However, I think higher authority should limit the spread of harmful content by taking systematic actions, so the digital space remains a safe space for everyone disregarding age, gender, age, ethnicity, religion and beyond. YouTube and TED did the right thing here and we should continue implementing and moderating the public platforms.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As digital marketers, we should be responsible for the quality, fairness and objectivity in our own work. If we start a movement to have compassion and empathy in our work, we can encourage other people to do the same too. Like what Nadia observes, \u201cI think of that moment of sea change like a sort of herd immunity. The positive voices, when there are enough of them, keep abusive ones from spreading, just as a mostly vaccinated population protects those few people who are not. Together, we have the power to protect the most vulnerable among us.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As digital marketers, we should be responsible for the quality, fairness and objectivity in our own work. 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