Big Brother Persuasive Speech

" I log onto my school Chromebook. A familiar notification pops up onto the screen. “Congratulations! You’ve logged into class!” In fake cheery language, the message isn’t there to congratulate me on actually paying attention in class, but instead is an alert. A warning. What it really means is that our teacher can see our screens, and we can no longer enjoy the privacy of our browser. Jokingly, my teacher refers to the message as Big Brother-- a phrase first coined by George Orwell in his dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty Four. In the novel, the country leader, nicknamed (you guessed it) Big Brother, constantly surveils its citizens for the sake of “peace and stability”. This led to the iconic slogan, “Big Brother is watching you”, a phrase now mostly associated with fanatic conspiracy theorists warning …show more content…
This includes Twitter censoring alt-right groups or Reddit shutting off racist sub reddits. And being neither a Nazi nor a white supremacist, I’m okay with that. But it’s not my perspective that actually matters. Because in reality, I have the power to ignore the “message board villains”, but that never translates in my power to silence them completely. According to our own First Amendment, “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press"". Especially with the recent boycott of Neo-Nazi magazine, The Daily Stormer, by companies like Google and PayPal, controversy is sparking. Cutting off the right of human expression restrains a fundamental birthright of American citizens. Something the founding fathers themselves made to ensure the continuation of our democracy. However critics still argue, surely the founding fathers never anticipated the problem we have today! Does the First Amendment still hold, hundreds of years after its