Importance of Social Networks as part of Human
Rights communication and Defense.
Due to the
new emerge of social media, there are easier and faster ways to cause a
violation in the human rights of individuals. These has draw attention to some
of the organizations which are in charge of protecting the human rights.
¨people
can today get informed, train and engage with other people, raising awareness or
triggering social movements much more easily and on a wider level than ever
before.¨
http://traininginstitute.rfkcenter.org/human-rights-and-social-media
http://traininginstitute.rfkcenter.org/human-rights-and-social-media
Social media come with
potential problems, as well as gains. This new phenomenon presents us with a
range of fresh challenges. One important issue is how to ensure that Internet
regulations do not strangle freedom of expression.
“Blocking”, for example, is
nowadays frequently used to prevent specific content from reaching a final
user. However, the indications are that this method is not efficient in
preventing, for example, human rights violations on the Internet.
Social networks indeed host a vast and growing
repository of personal data, all of it in digital form. It falls to our
national and international authorities to ensure that our individual rights to
privacy and data protection are not sacrificed to social networks, but rather
reinforced to recognize and meet the range of new challenges these powerful new
media present. Even if we think the information we provide to some sites is
protected and safe, sometimes it´s not, and they explain it all in the terms
and conditions that most of us don´t read.
I think that to stop
or at least, prevent the violations in the human rights of individuals
that social media makes easier to do, the sites should provide some sort of
rules, Restrictions and regulations
so the violations that are committed
in social media have a sort of sanction for the ones that commit them.
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