User talk:Bhurdle

This user is a student editor in University_of_North_Carolina_at_Greensboro/Civic_Engagement_in_a_Digital_Age_(Spring_2020) .

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Hello, Bhurdle, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:44, 5 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

My Contributions for Freedom of Speech in the U.S.[edit]

I decided to add mainly to the Internet speech/ Online Forums section of this article mainly because there was little information about the topic and it didn't seem to be up to date. With the existence of technology and the internet of the primarily digital age we are living in, I wanted to inform readers on the opportunity for online speech while still being protected under the First Amendment. I also wanted to highlight the importance of online censorship and regulation by privately owned platforms due to the fact that discrimination and hate speech is often used online to hurt and attack people. Initially there wasn't much content on internet speech but I hope after my edits and contributions that readers will be better informed on this topic of internet speech as it has become a predominate form of communication all across the world and more specifically in America.

I also added a quick sentence and source to the "Prior Restraint" section of the article as I didn't fully understand what it was in regards of speech until reading about a court case which I felt was necessary to mention for better understanding of the topic and how it has been used in a real-life example.