Ephesians 4:29 New International Version (NIV)
29 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your
mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their
needs, that it may benefit those who listen.
Our words should be used to build people up, not tear
people down. But it’s obvious in today’s political world that comments are
meant to demean, damage, damn, and destroy.
Evan Williams, a Twitter founder and co-creator of
Blogger—wanted to set everyone free to express their emotions and opinions on
line. So how's it going? A recent (May 2017) article in The New York Times
offered the following answer to that question:
"I think the internet is broken," Williams
said." He has believed this for a few years, actually. But things are
getting worse. "And it's a lot more obvious to a lot of people that it's
broken."
[The article continued]: People are using Facebook to
showcase suicides, beatings and murder, in real time. Twitter is a hive of
trolling and abuse that it seems unable to stop. Fake news, whether created for
ideology or profit, runs rampant. Four out of 10 adult internet users said in a
Pew survey that they had been harassed online. And that was before the
presidential campaign heated up last year.
"I thought once everybody could speak freely and
exchange information and ideas, the world is automatically going to be a better
place," Mr. Williams says. "I was wrong about that."
[David Streitfeldmay, "'The Internet Is Broken': @ev
Is Trying to Salvage It," The New York Times (5-20-17)]
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