Self-Censorship Run Amok
We live in a world of opinion, yet when it comes to sharing how we REALLY feel, there’s an innate tendency to self-censor. Even when using the world’s only true unfiltered medium: the Internet.
Your humble blogger fully admits he’s just as guilty as you.
What is it that keeps us from sharing how we truly feel? Probably the same thing that keeps us from kicking open an ATM machine: the fear of getting caught.
Terrorists can hand-deliver threatening videos to television stations, but we can’t say what we really think about people, politics, religion, and death – at least not without the fear of serious ramifications.
One minute we’re sounding off on Hillary Clinton, and the next we’re being escorted from our desks holding a cardboard box.
Rather then break into a full on rant on why most of us are fearful of serious backlash for writing about controversial topics, I’d like to ask the bloggers out there a question:
When you self-censor your blog, are you being an upstanding human being or you just scared?
And don’t tell me you don’t self-censor. We all do. Even me, right now, in this post…
What do you think?