The Silence Anti-War Voices

    The first amendment involves "Freedom of Speech". What exactly does free speech protect? Does it really protect people's opinions? Since the First War, many people have biased views on whether or not we should engage in a war. After looking at different websites like an anti-war site and a conservative site, you realize that these sites are never heard of and have extremely strong opinions. Since the first major war, the government has silenced or tried to silence people who have spoken up about issues they feel strongly against.

    People should have access to whatever they truly want as long as it is legal. The reason why we do not see any of these kinds of sites is that the government controls the type of sites that appear on the internet. As much as the government tries to hide these specific things some questions start to appear. Why are they hiding these sites? Why are they trying to silence their voices?

    One thing that I learned within society is that everyone has different intentions and does not exclude the government at all. The government to me at least is very underhanded and does things in order for you to be distracted from something else. So the fact that the government limits access and the number of people that see these kinds of sites is not really surprising to me, to say the least. 

    The government never really likes when people who are below it, start to speak up against it and it has always been like that At one point, it became a law that made it a crime to criticize the government. So to say the least the easiest way to make sure that their voices are not heard is to make sure that what they say can not reach the public. 

    I feel like it is this way also with social media platforms and news sources. The government only wants you to see and hear what they want you to hear. An example of this would be the Nashville School Shooting a few weeks ago. During a news siting of this, a parent decided to speak up about this and was expressing her feeling about this. However, during this instance, her speech was censored and not completely heard. 

Another instance of the control of the government is that for the first couple of days, the fact that the shooter identified as transgender. This was something that I heard multiple times throughout the news over and over again. This would spark arguments between people but at the end of the day, I feel like this was a ploy to distract people from the bigger issue that gun violence is a thing that we still have not solved. 

    The government has control of the things we see on the internet reminds me of a book I have read in the past. The book, "1984" by George Orwell has a very similar theme to what is happening in society today but on a much larger scale. The book talks about how the people of that society can not think against the government or anything that was deemed as such. So in a way, the government had total control over what people see and think. I just thought overall this is a funny, ironic comparison because both the book and what is happening in today's society involve the government trying to control the people. 

    For America at least this would be a breach of the first amendment forcing the people to think the way they want people to think.