With every passing week we are getting a lot of stuff to think about, make our opinions on the scenarios and then talk about it openly. This week’s articles and the Black Mirror episode made me feel so uncomfortable about the fact that how insane humans can be. How people behind the screen find it easy to talk insensitive and take a person up to the edge of depression.

I will start the blog with the articles i.e. “How Trolls Are Ruining the Internet” and “How the Internet Created the Age of Rage”. After reading these two articles, I feel so ashamed for the people who are involve in such activities and they find it amusing to talk so cruel about people online. Both of the articles have shown many examples where people not only get trolled but are also given threats of death, rape and more. I mean how would a person feel when he/she get the threat about his/her 5-year-old that she will be raped? People who use to do something different from the norms of society would end up getting threats like that and nobody can risk their families at any cost. This is the dilemma of our society that if we do not like a thing or we do not find a thing happening as per our requirement we start spreading the bad news about it or start mocking about the person who is doing this at first place. Then these mocking and bad news would start turning into hate and ultimately to the threats.

Now coming towards the episode of the Black Mirror: Hated in the Nation. I am so eager to talk about the stuff that happened in this episode. This was one of the most horrific yet an amazing episode. We all have seen in the start that two of the celebrities i.e. a journalist Jo Power and an American Rapper Tusk are shown who have made some steps that were not acceptable by the society and how they have shown hatred on the social media and then both of them killed themselves in a creepy way. In the investigation similar device found common in both of the deaths which was an Autonomous Drone Insect (ADI), which were designed in order to replace the extinct bees and are supposed to do the same job as the original bees do. Both of these deaths are found part of the game which was started on the internet, a website promoting the “game” where the users of twitter are supposed to vote in order to kill a public hate figure. The network of bees was got hacked and used for these mysterious deaths. And to my surprise people did vote there and this game continues till end and the end was the horrific part where all of the voters were also died in the same way they voted for the people.

What lesson we all get from this? The bees were originally made to replace the extinct of bees in order to fulfil their job. Which if we see positively is the positive use of the technology. But who used this in a wrong way? Certainly the hackers! The psychics who got this weird idea of death voting. So, again I will repeat that it is not technology that we have to hate but the people and the use of technology would be hated. These are the people who misuse the technology and then the whole of the community has to suffer from the after effects.

For this week’s news article, I have found this article helpful in order to understand that how we can avoid the misuse of the internet.

Link: https://www.thelegalpartners.com/avoid-social-media-misuse-protect-liability/#:~:text=manage%20employees%20use%20of%20email,networks%20without%20infringing%20their%20privacy