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South Carolina prisoners get the harshest in-prison punishment -- solitary confinement -- just for using Facebook.
A report released Thursday by Electronic Frontier Foundation researcher Dave Maass shows that South Carolina's Department of Corrections considers "creating and/or assisting with a social networking site" while in prison an offense akin to committing a violent crime against another prisoner or officer.
Prisoners found to post on Facebook in South Carolina's system can face losing privileges such as visitation rights and telephone access, and many receive solitary confinement sentences, state documents show.
Punishments are doled out separately for each day that an inmate posts on a social networking site, such as Facebook or Twitter. That means posting once on Monday and once again on Wednesday counts as two individual violations, but posting 50 times on a single day counts as just one violation.
Over the past three years, 432 disciplinary cases have been brought against 397 South Carolina inmates for using social networks (mostly Facebook). Of those disciplined prisoners, 40 received more than two years in solitary confinement, and 16 were sentenced to more than a decade alone in a cell.
One inmate, Tyheem Henry, received a 37-year solitary confinement sentence for posting on Facebook 38 times. He also lost 74 years worth of phone, visitation and canteen rights.
Of the three prisoners who received more than two decades of solitary confinement, none will be able to serve their full punishment -- their sentences are all up before 2025.
They likely wouldn't have spent all that time in solitary confinement anyway. As a result of such long sentences, the South Carolina Department of Corrections has been forced to suspend punishments due to a lack of solitary confinement cells.
Just last week, the state began to roll back its use of solitary confinement as punishment for social media use. It will eventually cap time alone at 60 days -- and inmates can be let out early with good behavior.
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Social media has become an essential tool for activists wishing to reach as many people as possible. But have other forms of campaigning been overlooked in the process? We asked students whether social media was indeed a campaigners best friend or whether greater focus on grassroots activism was required. Below are five of our favourite responses.
Campaigners increasingly embrace online tools to get their messages across. Blogging sites, online personal or group profiles, and cyberspace are used to spread awareness about a campaign, interact with and motivate supporters to follow the campaign, and coordinate events. Tweets and likes make it easy for the campaigners to track their followers interaction and engagement, while flexibility in social networking gives a behind-the-scenes view of the campaign and consequently a sense of accessibility.
But campaigns also involve a degree of mobilisation and a deeper level of participation that requires relational ties of some kind (as well as individual agency and ability). Thus, campaigning demands an element of fellowship solidarity and companionship that characterise a more personal form of contact.
For me, one of the best strategies is meeting and pressurising decision-makers to commit to change; it adds a more relational perspective to the campaign and ensures devotion to the cause.
Social media has changed the way we campaign. It is the ultimate equaliser giving people the chance to have their voices heard on the same stage as the worlds most powerful leaders. In the past decade weve seen online campaigning help bring down dictators, hold big business to account, elect presidents and encourage a whole new generation of young people to get involved in issues that matter. Of course, this is not to say that social media does not have its downsides, and the same tools that can be used for good can also be used to bully and oppress. But for campaigners to ignore this new platform would be equivalent to ignoring the rise of print media so many years ago. This is simply the way we communicate today, and I believe its still possible to maintain grassroots elements of campaigning in this new world. Campaigning on the streets is important, but there really is no comparison to the amount of people activists can reach online. So yes, social media is still a campaigners best friend.
The encompassing force of globalisation is facilitating a movement towards an online world characterised by the rapid sharing of social media information, which has the power to transcend traditional boundaries. However, is it possible to create significant change from an online platform? How can politicians be appropriately engaged? These are questions that cloud the effectiveness of such far-reaching campaigning. Undoubtedly, social media can be used as an effective tool for advocating change, but quality grassroots campaigning should be used as a catalyst for mobilising the vast quantity of keyboard warriors.
Take the poignant UN speech by Emma Watson regarding gender equality, which inspired 19m hits for he4she.org in the four days following. Social media requires a spark to become effective; lazy keyboard warriors need a real-life catalyst to inspire their virtual campaign. A further prominent example is the public self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia, which created a wave of revolutionary unrest throughout the Arab world in 2011, mobilising 2 million Egyptians in occupying Tahrir Square [and] overthrowing Mubaraks government. It began with Bouazizi and was spread thanks to the sharing of a multitude of accessible information, photos, videos and locations of imminent protests.
Clearly, social media can be employed as a significant tool for empowerment and liberation, yet the online world is a gullible and impatient one; mistakes will doubtless be made. Nonetheless, social media represents the future of campaigning, so long as the sparks that mobilise the clicktivists continue.
As a means of communication, advertisement, and expression, social media has become the norm. Many young people, in the developed and developing world alike, often have an arguably unhealthy attachment to their mobile device, as opportunities to socialise, research, and express oneself to the world through written word, recorded video, and carefully cropped pictures are a mere swipe of the finger away. Therefore, social media is pivotal to a grassroots campaign in regard to organisation, promotion, recruitment, policy and strategy briefing, and indoctrination of specific goals and beliefs.
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By Geordon Omand, The Canadian Press
Regulating the publication of violent images and disturbing comments posted through social networking websites could do more harm than good, says digital media expert Aimee Morrison.
Keeping troubling online behaviour open to public scrutiny provides a valuable tool for staging an effective intervention, said the University of Waterloo professor in an interview on Monday.
"The more we can bring the dark thoughts that people are already having into the open, the more that we can develop the means to decipher those and find a way to get help for these people," she said.
"I think that would be much better than silencing everybody."
Morrison's comments come days after police in Halifax tipped off by an anonymous submission to Crime Stoppers said they foiled a mass shooting they allege was planned for Valentine's day.
A 19-year-old man believed to be associated with the alleged plot was found dead Friday morning in the Halifax suburb of Timberlea.
A social networking website thought to be linked to the man features pictures of weapons, Nazi symbols and images relating to the Columbine school shooting. On Feb. 5, an image circulated on another account featuring what is believed to be the deceased 19-year-old's username and the phrase: ``Valentine's Day it's going down.''
Along with recent high-profile cyberbullying incidents, commentators say this case highlights bigger questions around the balance between freedom of speech and restricting destructive online behaviour.
Alfred Hermida described the conflict as a difficult one, especially given the value we place on open communication.
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