While she was listening to the governor's speech at a Youth in Government program last week, an 18-year-old schoolgirl, Emma Sullivan,
tweeted that Kansas governor, Sam Brownback, sucked. Governor's media staff
found the tweet and notified it to the school authorities. She was ordered to
send a letter of apology to the governor, but she refused to follow because she
thought such an apology would not have been sincere. The governor said she did
not need to apologize for her tweet and added, “Freedom of speech is among our
most treasured freedoms.” Definitely, freedom of speech must not be infringed.
However the thing which drew my attention in this case was not the constitutional right, but
the fact that governor's staff monitored twitter, Facebook, and other social
network sites. Even worse, the staff alerted the school officials and had them
done something to the girl. The person who should apologize is not Emma Sullivan, but the
governor's staff. Not to mention the right, we have our own private lives online as well as offline.
Vocab.
Decorum - Noun
behavior that people consider to be correct, polite, and respectable.
propriety
Decorum is an idle word in some cases like having a quarrel with irrational people.
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