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Indicate the role that social media could play in a democratic society.

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Since we live in a democratic society it is important that we have the common freedoms associated with such a society. Social Media is one of the biggest freedoms. In some countries, people don't have the freedom to make decisions freely without having their government restricting or condemning their actions on a regular basis. In the U.S and many other countries though, this is a different story. Social Media is a place where anybody can post about whatever they want whether that be their opinions on a topic or their feelings on political things. Many times some of that stuff can be controversial because it is so freely expressed and it represents a smaller sides views which most times prove to be extreme or radical. Still, our democratic society allows this stuff because it is common freedom and without it there would be major unrest. Too much freedom though is sometimes not as good as we would think it to be. This existed in communist societies where people believed that everything should be shared publicly even money which didn't turn out good. Too little freedom would result in something of a dictatorship where all opinions are forced to be one-sided and that does no good because we all have our own views and it's just not right.

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