anosta E-SPEAIT 2022 Blog

 This week again I will deviate from the assignment and instead talk about an ethical question that has been bugging me for the last couple of weeks. It has to with Elon Musk's recent acquisition of Twitter and his comments about its future. I want to start off with saying that I don't hate Elon Musk, he is not the worst person to have this much power. Some of the things he does are really beneficial to us, others - not as much. Musk calls himself a "free speech absolutist" and it is this idea that rubs me the wrong way. The consensus among his supporters is that he will stop banning people who do not agree with the "leftist, woke agenda". On the face of it, it does seem shady when people are banned for just expressing their opinions. Freedom of speech is necessary for progress after all, and for a free and fair society. Censorship has been used in the past to keep suppress dissenting voices and to keep autocrats in power. Here's the deal though - absolu

 I really want to give a shoutout to an amazing spokesperson for the blind community - Tommy Edison . Edison was born blind. His parents treated him the same as his sighted siblings, for which he is very grateful. In 2011 he started a YouTube channel called " Blind Film Critic " (not a joke). He reviews films based entirely on sound. I got to know him from his other channel (linked above) where he talks about living life as a blind person, his perceptions of the world and assistive tech. He has several videos about using technology as a blind person. Before I found his videos I hadn't really considered how different disabled people lived their lives, so you could say these videos were "eye-opening" for me.