Extremist Groups Online

Extremist groups have begun, like many others, to embrace social media in the attempt to spread their message to the “uneducated masses”. They do this through many mediums but it is through their representation online that they are able to gain the most converts to their cause, as they are able to represent themselves in the most positive way possible for them. Something they cannot do through media outlets such as TV, radio or the newspapers as they are controlled by people who wish to push their own agendas. But let us not get off topic here. Most of these so called extremist groups have Facebook pages or twitter accounts, with nearly all of them having websites, and why not? Didn’t think I was going there did you? Why shouldn’t these people be allowed to say and do what they want in such a free and open environment for their ideas like the internet? Because it will poison the minds of the next generation? Because it will distort what is perceived and allowed on the social environment of the real world as acceptable? I personally don’t think that either of those are the case. In my opinion these people are well within their rights to say or do whatever they want to whomever they want on the internet (short of killing, raping or beating someone of course) as that is one of the reasons the internet exists, to allow people the right and the forum to have adult conversations with next to bars on the language or the importance of their conversation in relation to everyday life. (Well that and porn, jk jk.) If that means that One million moms can go around saying that having Ellen DeGeneres as the face of a Major clothing line is wrong, so be it. If that means that Fox News is allowed to spew out all the propaganda against the left-wing politic representatives as it wants, so be it. So long as we, the people, are allowed to share our viewpoints as well and have companies or groups *cough* Anonymous *cough* to defend us then why not let people preach all they want on the internet. That way everyone will indeed practice what they preach. (Online)