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How the news and media are destroying the reputation of many people politically and personally

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How the news and media are destroying the reputation of many people politically and personally

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In today’s society the news and media are destroying the reputation of many people politically and personally. For example recently the news brought back up about talking about the Russians and bringing a negative view on them, The most negative view is that they colluded with Donald Trump to basically destroy Hillary Clinton's campaign and the news is pushing with that idea to make a lot of people believe that Russians are mean and manipulative. The news and social media sites try to destroy people by looking at the negatives about a person, thing, or idea. “... It didn’t come from the government down. There was no diction, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no. Technology mass exploitation…” (Bradbury 55). In Fahrenheit 451 people try to say there was no censorship even though there is, that is extremely true in our society today. Another example of personally and politically destroying someone would be the old FBI Director from 2013-2017 James Comey, He like many people today are being accused and lashed by top officials like Donald Trump and the press about how he allegitally messed with the Hillary Clinton Email investigation and the Russian Investigation. He was fired to ease the “pressure” Trump was under during the Russian Investigation. Because of these things and ideas about James Comey he has been being tracked down by the press and media to answer “questions” about what he did and what he didn’t do, they have gone so far to track him down just walking on the streets and currently going to serve 3 years in a federal correction center. “Censorship: official restriction of any expression believed to threaten the politica, social, or moral order” (Encyclopedia.com). Sometimes when the news is trying to be blacklashed by people they normally ignore it or cover it up about a controversial topic to try to draw the people’s attention somewhere else to try to seem unbiased about almost any topic. Also that when people get backlashed by a top official or the press no one really seems to back up the one individual who is being targeted. The media tries to manipulate people’s point of view by creating misinformation for example someone could use photoshop to replace a political sign in a picture or even make it look like an official's twitter account said something bad about someone or something. In the end the press and social media will always try to break someone mentally or in some way physically to start to resolve some of these issues people need to learn how to stop the spread of misinformation and try to stop the corruption that rapidly spreads through the nation.

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News and Media are trying to impact society

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News and Media are trying to impact society

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In Fahrenheit 451 the news and media are trying to impact society by trying to brainwash the people by showing them that everyone in the world is happy even though tons of people are being killed and starving. Bradbury shows that the news and media are manipulating people by feeding them misinformation and giving people one side of the story instead of the truth. “... We must all be alike. Not everyone is born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone is made equal” (Bradbury 55). This reveals that the people in Fahrenheit are forced to be in some way equal as in not reading, restricting and censoring the people. “The White Clown is on tonight.” (Bradbury 69) There is some symbolism in Fahrenheit for example Bradbury has a tv show in their world called the White Clown. White usually represents innocence and more, but mostly that isn’t the case maybe the news are hiding behind a mask, the media could be recording conversations listening in on what there saying, they could also be recording people to see what they are doing maybe like hiding books, etc. This also would show that the government knows so much about an individual person that they can push that person to their limits. “The Hound half rose in its heels and looked at him with green blue lights flickering” (Bradbury 23). The hound in Fahrenheit 451 could be a government weapon like some sort of technological spy. Most likely the real purpose of the hound  is to make people uncomfortable instead of feel safe the government are trying to put people in their place try to scare them maybe if so far to kill them so that the truth about the bad side of the news and media aren’t leaked out into society so people don’t rebel and turn their back on the government forever.  “We burned a thousand books. We burned a woman” (Bradbury 47). This shows that how in Fahrenheit 451’s society is falling apart they may burn thousands upon thousands of books but they can never burn away the past.

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News, media corrupting the government affecting ordinary people

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News, media corrupting the government affecting ordinary people

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In Fahrenheit 451 the news and media are corrupting the government affecting ordinary people. Near the end of the book Granger says “... So they must have their game out thought Montag. The Circus must go on, even with war beginning within the hour” (Bradbury ). This quote could very well reflect the new and media in Fahrenheit 451. In the book’s world news and media have drastically changed especially the creation of fake news.The news are always usually trying to change the minds of people, because of this people will start to believe about different things, and ideas that the news spits out. Even though the news  is usually more manipulative than a lot of other sources. “The Chase continues… Granger nodded “They’re faking. You threw them off at the river. They can’t admit it. They know they can hold their audience for so long” (Bradbury 141). This reveals that the news mixes the truth with lies, Montag was being chased earlier and now they are faking the rest of story because he lost them and they won’t admit it because they don’t want the people to know the truth about Montag throwing them off and the news picked an innocent person to kill as a scapegoat. The media in Fahrenheit 451 tries to brainwash people by luring them to keep watching shows on the tv and even make people think their “family” is on the tv. “It’s really fun. It’ll be even more fun when we can afford to have a fourth wall installed. How long you figure before we save up and get the fourth wall torn out and a fourth wall-TV put in? It’s only two thousand dollars”. “That's one third of my pay”. “ It’s only two thousand dollars”, she replied. “And I should think you’d consider me sometimes. If we had a fourth wall, why it’d be just like this room wasn’t ours at all… We could do without a few things”.  “We’re already doing without a few things” (Bradbury 18). This quote reveals that Montag’s wife doesn’t really care about him, she only cares about herself more and her tv “family”. In the end Fahrenheit 451’s government will always try to infect people and try to take control of them or get rid of them though news or media the government will triumph until people wake up and see what the government truly is.

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This picture summarizes the role of the firefighters in Fahrenheit 451. They are made to destroy the past and push forth the new culture of their time.

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What does a fireman do?
In real life the fireman extinguish the fire..... However in this book Fahrenheit 451 the fireman sets fire.

(Topic of the book) This book which I am currently reading is called the Fahrenheit 451. In this book the main topic is about the censorship and the ones who censor are firemen. They burn down the book and everything which is related to books.

(Censorship) This book was published during the Cold War. The Cold War was between the Communist country Russia and the Capitalist country U.S.A . They were both trying to convince their citizen that the other country's ideology was bad. This is how the censorship had begun. Censorship is when the big organization such as the government block the bad and negative information about them or blocking the whole action which could be a threat in the future to themselves.

(Censorship in the book) In this book, books are the ones which could be a threat to the country. In this book the government says that reading book will let people to think more. Which could let people end at thinking about their government's ideology which is capitalist. The government thought that this will lead the citizens to think about the positive and negative part of the ideology. In the period of the time USA was in war with Russia which has other ideology and policy. So USA thought that books will lead people to dangerous thoughts and shake USA from inside. So the government has made the firemen to set fire to books. Government thought that this will get rid of the seed of thinking which can grow in to strikes and which will shake USA. So in this book the firemen sets fire to everything connected to the book and the book itself.

(Censoring the book)
In this book the government and firemen censor all kinds of books. By doing this they are blocking the chances for the people to think about anything. But the government only let them watch movie and make their life routinized. Also in that routine there is absolutely no thinking involved. "Here for instance, the man says, "What do you think oh this whole idea ? " And I say, " I think that's fine" Its sure fun." The is a quote from the book Fahrenheit 451 on page 20. As you can see here his woman is reading and explaining about the script but critical thinking or thinking about the idea is not existing. She is only saying that, I think that's fine without thinking. Censoring the book in this book makes people like a robot under control of people. They are in a routine with absolutely no thinking process but move and act just like they are programmed by the government.

(Is there censoring in our world in this moment?)
There is censoring around us for sure. For example giving an age limit and not letting the students or children watch disgusting and explicit film is a form of censoring. This is a good censoring. However in the North Korea the leader censor everything about the democratic and capitalism. This is also a form of censoring. So there is a positive and negative aspect of censoring.

(Should our society accept censoring?)
I personally thought that censoring is needed. Because censoring will allow us to avoid some movies or facts which is not appropriate. But who decides is it is appropriate or not? You never know that, if a government is censoring something from you right now or not. You might have been brainwashed just like North Koreans and believe that you know everything you should know about. So I think that censoring should not be accepted. With a right education us ourselves and censor what we should avoid and help our children to avoid not appropriate things for their age group. So I am against the censoring.

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What does a fireman do? In real life the fireman extinguish the fire..... However in this book Fahrenheit 451 the fireman sets fire. (Topic of the book) This book which I am currently reading is called the Fahrenheit 451. In this book the main topic is about the censorship and the ones who censor are firemen.

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This picture stood out to me because in the real world many people will try to stop you from basically saying anything negative.

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I also chose this picture beacuse censorship is basically slaverly. The higher power people aren't allowing common folks to get the knowledge they need in life.

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In this picture the man is being blindfolded by facebook, This could probably be the result of algorithems blinding both point of veiws on a subject.

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Diehard supporters of President Rodrigo Duterte or so-called DDS have raised their concerns about Facebook's recent initiative to partner with fact-checkers and prohibit fake news (as verified by the fact-checkers) from being posted or shared on its social media platform. Some DDS bloggers and even some members of mainstream media have called the initiative censorship.

But is it really?

Censorship, according to Wikipedia, is the suppression of speech or information. The basis could be many things but usually it is for content that is found objectionable or harmful by the government or the community.

Conceptually, censorship happens when a third party (the government or the community) prevents another (usually the media) from sharing or publishing information. When a person or the media suppress their own speech with no compulsion from a third party, it is called self-regulation (sometimes self-censorship).

With the rise of social media as a platform for individuals to express and share their thoughts or ideas, what do we call it when the social medium (Facebook) itself suppresses information (fake news) posted or shared by its users with no compulsion from the government? Based on our definition and concepts, it would then be both censorship and self-regulation!

So yes, blocking fake news posted or shared by users on Facebook is technically censorship. But it is also self-regulation. Let's explore the implications.

The negative connotation that is stirred by the word censorship usually comes from the situation when the government prohibits or cracks down on speech. This is because governments may abuse their power on what kind of speech they prohibit - from acceptable censored information such as child pornography to unacceptable censored information such as criticism of government officials.

And so the question we must ask - if the blocking of fake news by Facebook is censorship - is whether or not such censorship is acceptable and prone to abuse.

Fake news are lies and propaganda that manipulate people and prevent them from making informed political decisions. It's next to impossible for any rational person to support the proliferation of fake news on social media. We all aspire for the truth and we are all benefited if people can agree on the facts and the truth. We don't need fake news to identify real news.

Facebook banning fake news is just like its existing regulations that prohibit users from posting or sharing hate speech and child pornography - all of them are harmful to people and societies. Studies have shown that lies spread faster than the truth! And fact-checking the lies don't reach the same amount of people.

And so, Facebook is just self-regulating its own power to help lies or disinformation from harming a lot of people and democracies.

Now, is banning fake news prone to abuse? Hardly. The partner fact-checkers, Rappler and Vera Files, are accredited fact-checkers by an international organization. If they wrongfully fact-check the news or reports, their accreditation will be removed. If they are biased or partisan, individuals and other media outlets will call them out and their credibility will go down before the international organization of fact-checkers.

Facebook is a global player. It has no incentive to side with Rappler or Vera Files if they are not doing their job properly. The DDS have already threatened to leave Facebook for its choice of partner fact-checkers. A company does not want its customers to leave or hold a boycott.

More importantly, Facebook is a private company and not a state or government. It has no incentive to side with either DDS or dilawans or any other simplistic political group label. Unlike governments that engage in censorship, Facebook is not likely to ever crackdown on dissent or criticism in favor of one side in politics. There is no reason why it will ban one side's fake news while allowing another side's fake news. Again, its customers or users will not tolerate such bias and they will migrate to another social media platform.

It might be unthinkable to believe Facebook users will ever leave the platform but Friendster and MySpace once looked unbeatable. While Jimmy Bondoc and other DDS bloggers have suggested leaving and migrating to VK or weibo, other popular social media and messenger apps such as Line, WeChat, and WhatsApp are also compelling alternatives.

But by banning fake news, Facebook is betting its users will stay and grow. I'm betting on Facebook's gamble. - Rappler.com
Jesus Falcis is a radio anchor, a public interest lawyer, and a lecturer of the Department of Political Science of the Far Eastern University (Manila). He teaches law-related subjects and has taught Communication students Media Law and Ethics.

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Facebook blocking fake news is censorship? Hell yeah!

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Diehard supporters of President Rodrigo Duterte or so-called DDS have raised their concerns about Facebook's recent initiative to partner with fact-checkers and prohibit fake news (as verified by the fact-checkers) from being posted or shared on its social media platform. Some DDS bloggers and even some members of mainstream media have called the initiative censorship.

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I chose this picture because it shows the even if we are free we are never truly free from the government and media.

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Pin by Josie Johnson on 219 Text Set: Censorship & Fahrenheit 451 in 2019 | Protest posters, Art, Political art

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Mar 19, 2019- This Pin was discovered by Josie Johnson. Discover (and save!) your own Pins on Pinterest.

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i1jdgUsge5dhJ1Ccvk_tBNKPjCijOyaaI2wBFl8WkXk/edit?usp=sharing

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Video #2: Censorship and controlling ideas in the classroom: Dr. Yvonne Chiu

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Video #2: Censorship and controlling ideas in the classroom: Dr. Yvonne Chiu

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In the video Dr. Yvonne Chiu talks about how classrooms censor certian ideas. She talks about how books like Uncle Tom's Cabin and other racial books that are out there. In the end she talks about how, if you have too much information too early that you could harm yourself.

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Censorship and controlling ideas in the classroom: Dr. Yvonne Chiu at TEDxHongKongED

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Can too much information too soon actually be harmful to students? Is there some value to censoring ideas in the classroom? If so, what does censorship mean in this context, and how should it be done?

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Video #1: Ted Talk What Facebook and Google are Hiding From You

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Video #1: Ted Talk What Facebook and Google are Hiding From You

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In the video it talks about how Facebook and Google are using algorithems which basically makes the things that you search up more relevant. The algorithems block up veiws on a topic you despise and gives you only your point of veiw on a subject instead of the whole picture.

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TED Talks - What FACEBOOK And GOOGLE Are Hiding From The World - The Filter Bubble

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Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury in which the author brings awareness to how society is using censorship to control many aspect of life especially the news and media, making society feel a sense of security in the modern-day nation when actually it is the opposite.

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John Keiers
Mrs. Jenkins
English 10-8
17 April 2019