The internet has become a very big and vast space where you can find just about anything you want. In the U.S. there really is about no limits for what you can find on the internet ranging from cat memes to political information to porn. The internet really is the greatest source of information and pleasure that you will find right at the tips of your fingers. This is not the case for all places though. When you go to places like China, Egypt, and many other countries where there freedom of speech is limited. These countries are most of the time always looking to block an sort or activism that will cause there government to collapse and the people in power to fall out of power. This is all talked about in the article “The Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism” where the author talks about how the internet works and how to best create activism and how some places are trying to stop it. He talks about how the internet started as a place for people to share research papers and things of that nature but quickly has become a place to allow for people to share cute cat pictures. Now while a lot of the internet now has become memes there is still a lot of important information and activist that use it do get their cause out there and then get support.

He also talks about the best way to know if your website is getting to the masses is first you see porn being posted and shared then to know you’ve made it big activist start to make post. The porn idea also ties a little bit into this weeks book review about sexting. Even though the book focused on the idea of consent and sexting of younger teens and how its become more and more popular so does porn and things of that nature. Now with teens it really comes down do you trust that person to keep those things private and to their eyes only. Then as adults you should always keep that type of stuff private cause your old enough and mature enough to do so and know the effects of stuff like that getting out but when you are younger you don’t really think about those types of things. I think todays culture and thoughts towards things like sex work and people using there bodies to make money has changed dramatically and with sites like only fans you see a lot more post that could be considered porn to promote or just put online because people will share just about anything now a days. I think this is way porn is usually a good assessment of making it on a small scale because people wouldn’t post those sorts of things if they didn’t know that it was going to get view and shared by tons of people to either help them gain followers or just get noticed by more people. The next comes the activist which a lot of that goes hand in hand with cancel culture that we talked about a few weeks ago and just how big that has become and how they will get there word out anywhere they can that has a big audience for views and then shares on top of that. So once you get these two pretty big crowds of people you are doing a pretty good job. I think all of this can be seen on Twitter which really went through these steps and has really taken off as a social media platform these last couple of years. Then you have people that just make there own memes where they share just about anything that make ranging from animals to just funny pictures with just about anything on them.

Another article we read this week “10 Twitter Hashtags that Changed the way we Talk About Social Issues” which talks about different hashtags that were used and how many times they we used. The top three hashtags were #Ferguson with 27,200,000, #LoveWins with 12,800,000 and #BlackLivesMatter with 12,000,000. These were all very big issues but all very different from one another and just shows you how much activism is happening on twitter and how many different people have used just those 3 hashtags. Have you participated in using any of these 3 hashtags or any of the others mentioned in the article?

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This article is a fact check and also talks about different things that were talked about during the Vice Presidential Debate held last week on October 7th.

FactChecking the Vice Presidential Debate