Posted 1 week ago
Internet
It’s true that the web is a great innovation that allows users to express their humanity and it’s also an opportunity to create new communities.
As such it represents a forum in which one can make choices about their identity, at least insofar as one chooses to represent themselves publicly. That freedom does not suggest that one can do so with impunity, however.
Because we live in a society in which expression is judged in legal, policy and even more personal ways, it is really important to remember the consequences of that expression no matter how ephemeral or fun in the moment it might seem to be.
