There was a lot of talks lately when it comes to discussing freedom of speech. You can say that every media house tries to protect this right. If you take our right to speak our mind then we cannot really call it a free society and a democratic country, right? But a lot comes to question. Can we really call online harassment as part of freedom of speech? Really and truly is there a time where to draw the line? It seems that now people can just insult someone just because they might not agree with the same political opinion or any opinion in any case. Is it right that a member of parliament irrelevant from her political background is called a ''whore'' just because she is a politically exposed person?
TVM news portal stated ''She (Rosianne Cutajar) said that when similar comments were made on persons close to the Nationalist Party these were immediately condemned by the media and other organisations as was appropriate. However, she said, it seems there are those who find comments like these acceptable if they are made against a person from the Labour Party.'' this raised many questions. Are we only in favor of shaming arguments which we don’t agree on and don’t care about the rest? Apart from the obvious fallacy being conducted; sexism, we should always remember that black on white will always be black and so we should treat everyone the same and not alter our opinion just because this person is initially ‘’against’’ us. In the end, we are all humans let’s not be blind sighted with political parties and opinions but keep in mind the dignity of a person when engaging in our right of freedom of speech. Yes, we have freedom of speech, we also have freedom of free will but that doesn’t mean I can go kill someone when I want to, so let’s not kill someone when we want to with our words. Words are a tool, don’t use them as a weapon.
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