Freedom of expression. What exactly does that mean? Freedom to express our feelings and opinions without the fear of persecution? Censorship? Big Brother? We started the class period with a simple question from our professor: did any of us do anything this past weekend like community service to celebrate MLK day? The first response from one of my classmates happened to be about the situation with SOPA and PIPA and it sparked an interesting conversation about what it was. A couple of my classmates gave their opinions about the subject and before the conversation got ugly, my professor stepped in, but it really just got me thinking about how much freedom we actually think we have. I haven't really looked into the SOPA bill as of yet, but just something to keep in mind guys, no matter what we do, we will always have some sort of censorship. So long as a society wants to continue to be a working society, there have to be limitations on what we, as citizens, do. Not to say we shouldn't be allowed to freely express ourselves, but we have to be held accountable for our actions if we know that we're in the wrong. This is also not to say that jail time is the correct way to deal with the situation, but it's not surprising that its being used as a solution to the problem.
The rest of the class time was spent discussing our first project which I'm excited about! It will require a lot of time, research, and energy, but we get to work with a partner and design a campaign about a controversial social issue occurring today. We went over the specs of the project and basically just started researching about our topics. This project will be a challenge, but it will teach us a lot about issue advertising. My classmates all have different topics that are interesting and I'd love to see what solutions they come up with and the campaigns they present.
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