I, personally, do not think that there should be any limitations in regards to freedom of speech as long as the content of the speech does not oppose any moral or civic values. According to ‘The Online Books Page, BANNED BOOKS ONLINE’ I’ve noticed that most of these books are banned for mainly what seems to be conservative reasons (Ie. “Margaret Sanger's husband was jailed for distributing her Family Limitation, which described and advocated various methods of contraception…”) and a popular method of social programming (Ie. The Bible and The Koran were both removed from numerous libraries and banned from import in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1956…) both of which involve excluding what would be considered sensitive and/or potentially “misleading”
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From what is gathered from the Flag Burning Page, people are having peaceful protests which consist of non-violent behavior and nonverbal exploitation. Proud to be in a democratic setting. Eventually flags are burned and officials became frightened that this may “provoke anti-war protests”. With that, precautions were taken and flags were ordered to be removed from fire engines and the Fire Bureau was made to reverse the situation. After some struggle, the Fire Bureau was made to come up with a policy that allowed for the expression of patriotism without the flying of the flags to where people could burn them (“The fire bureau and the union should sit down and come up with a consistent policy that allows folks to fly the flags and come up with parameters for circumstances under which you don't fly them,"). I find that non-digitalized media is more likely to be censored and with easy effort through cover ups, bans and sabotage. Through the Flag Burning article you can see that the “hateful act” was easily “cleared” through a false/unnecessary policy in order to prevent violent anti-war riots by the public. Digitalized media though I notice requires much greater efforts. The internet is the largest bank for information with countless sources and requires a more controlled restriction from a single source. Ie. North Korea’s government blocking sites such as Facebook and Twitter due to the fear of online information being leaked, because most of this generation's population and the generation prior are well acquainted with technology, digital media/propaganda and the internet, multiple copies of information can be replicated, saved or placed in different locations. Multiple sources provide for multiple truths. I think that this is one of the major issues with censorship through digital scapes and will always pose as a threat to “sensitive information” and/or “hate speech”
From what is gathered from the Flag Burning Page, people are having peaceful protests which consist of non-violent behavior and nonverbal exploitation. Proud to be in a democratic setting. Eventually flags are burned and officials became frightened that this may “provoke anti-war protests”. With that, precautions were taken and flags were ordered to be removed from fire engines and the Fire Bureau was made to reverse the situation. After some struggle, the Fire Bureau was made to come up with a policy that allowed for the expression of patriotism without the flying of the flags to where people could burn them (“The fire bureau and the union should sit down and come up with a consistent policy that allows folks to fly the flags and come up with parameters for circumstances under which you don't fly them,"). I find that non-digitalized media is more likely to be censored and with easy effort through cover ups, bans and sabotage. Through the Flag Burning article you can see that the “hateful act” was easily “cleared” through a false/unnecessary policy in order to prevent violent anti-war riots by the public. Digitalized media though I notice requires much greater efforts. The internet is the largest bank for information with countless sources and requires a more controlled restriction from a single source. Ie. North Korea’s government blocking sites such as Facebook and Twitter due to the fear of online information being leaked, because most of this generation's population and the generation prior are well acquainted with technology, digital media/propaganda and the internet, multiple copies of information can be replicated, saved or placed in different locations. Multiple sources provide for multiple truths. I think that this is one of the major issues with censorship through digital scapes and will always pose as a threat to “sensitive information” and/or “hate speech”