Should Twitter entertain millions with public
arguments?
Comedian Janey Godley's tweets of a couple's train-bound
row raise questions of how to protect our privacy in public
places.
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Couple on train before its even moved have fallen out over “her
inabálity to accept the truth" this will be fun #iraintales
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She just told hin’l can accept the truth you are incapable of
speaking it WOW WHO the HELL is TIA and why did she email
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If the troubles of the two travellers had made it on to a
newspaper first rather than a comedian's Twitter feed,
would we be so relaxed about loss of privacy? | think
perhaps not.
Social media has done so much for freedom of expression,
it would be cruel if it actually leads to less social freedom
for fear of having our every misstep, angry word or
misbehaviour broadcast there for all to see.
(Adaptado de David Banks, Should Twitter entertain millions with
public rows? The Guardian, 13/07/2012. Disponivel em
https: //www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/201 2/jul/13/twitter-
millions-public-rows. Acessado em 10/07/2017.)
No artigo de opiniao acima, o autor
a) critica a perda da liberdade de expressao provocada
pelo abuso nas midias sociais por certos usuarios.
b) aponta um dilema ético suscitado pelo uso das midias
sociais, envolvendo dois tipos de liberdade.
c) diz que a invasão de privacidade por parte de jornais é
mais aceita do que aquela praticada pelo Twitter.
d) argumenta que a liberdade dos cidadãos é um valor
mais importante do que o direito à privacidade.