This article focuses on the Peaches Geldof and tweeting about the mothers who allowed their children to get sexually abused by Ian Watkins who was convicted for rape last year. As a result, both individuals have to face the consequences of tweeting confidential information publically. Thus, this article establishes how individuals should tweet safely without getting in trouble with the law. The steps are:
- Do not name and shame: 19 year old women victim of Chad Evans was named more than 6,000 times on Twitter by people who thought he was innocent.
- Do not assume it is already out there: Peaches Geldof found the names of the women on different websites and believed that they were already released by the courts. As a result, the HM Courts and Tribunals Service had published them by mistake.
- Do not re-tweet if you would not tweet it.
- Do not try to be clever for it.
- Do not forget the allegedly.
This article is significant in establishing the power that individuals have to share their thoughts through social networking sites, such as Twitter. Thus, it can be argued that new and digital media gives people democracy to express thier views globally.
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