Recently,
sad news has been looming around and it's the highly publicised and
horrible murder of ABC journalist Jill Meagher. Major news
publications has been covering the tragedy and without fail it has
caught on in social media with the Australian public showing grief
and sadness which escalated to anger and hate. There have since been
Facebook pages created. Originally with the intent to pay respect to
the passing of Meagher but has also became an outlet to source out
some of the people's anger towards the murderer.
The
police has urged the public to stop posting “speculation or
comments about matters before the courts” since there's a
possibility that they can have an affect on the outcome of the trial
of prosecution proving that the police department has been monitoring
social media activities surrounding the case. Looking at this makes
it apparent that a lot of people probably still see social media as a
somewhat private space where freedom of expression is celebrated and
people can post whatever they want. In reality that is far from the
truth, on 19th
of September an 18 year old girl in Kentucky posted “My dumbass got
a DUI and I hit a car LOL” and subsequently got arrested for
refusing to delete her comment.
http://mashable.com/2012/09/19/facebook-comment-jail/comment-page-2/.
Coming from a country with freedom of speech it wont be surprising if
anymore hateful comments get out of hand on the Meagher case the
police department may soon take more aggressive actions towards the
social media users.
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