Pratica di Shadowing: Should social media be censored? Here's what both sides have to say - Impara a parlare inglese con YouTube

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There's been much debate this past year about freedom of speech and social media.
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There's been much debate this past year about freedom of speech and social media.
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We should err on the side of greater expression.
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They are literally spreading lies, misinformation, propaganda.
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Companies that engage in censoring or any political conduct will not be able to keep their liability shield.
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The dilemma, should social media companies censor speech that they deem to be hateful or violent or false?
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Or should they keep it up in the spirit of freedom of speech?
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And what happens when the speaker is an elected official?
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I believe that we have two responsibilities.
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To remove content when it can cause real danger as effectively as we can,
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and to fight to uphold as wide of a definition of freedom of expression as possible.
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Of course, the First Amendment doesn't legally apply to Facebook or to Twitter or to Instagram or YouTube.
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It was written solely to stop the government,
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not private companies, from censoring speech.
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The debate has intensified due to one particular post from President Donald Trump,
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When the looting starts, the shooting starts.
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Twitter placed a warning label on the tweet saying it glorified violence.
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Facebook did nothing.
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You could say that you're all for free speech,
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but you also need to protect society,
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especially when you're in the position Facebook is in.
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Mark Zuckerberg would say that he is standing for a democratic principle
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which is freedom of expression and he says
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that you know a private company like his who is he
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a billionaire to to be able to you know in some way restrict the speech of the president of the United States.
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Do you buy that argument?
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I do not.
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I think that that argument is entirely in Mark Zuckerberg's profit interest.
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I think what we're seeing is Mark Zuckerberg is saying,
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you know, I don't want to rile up the president.
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I don't want to invite regulatory action.
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I don't want to tick off the president's following, which also uses Facebook.
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And, you know, I don't want to alienate them from my own platform
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because that will detract from my own revenue and engagement on my own platform.
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But those who argue Facebook should operate in the spirit of free speech say it's a slippery slope to remove
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or even to fact check political speech.
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Where would you draw a line if you were Facebook when it comes to a Trump post?
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So I think that Facebook cordons off a couple of very narrow areas which are wise to
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shut down and that is things like misleading speech about elections themselves.
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If Trump posted Hey everyone,
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go vote on election day on this date,
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and it was the wrong date.
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I think that's reasonable to take down because it is timely and also obviously misleading.
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For things like hate speech,
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I think that people should know if the president is using hate speech.
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You don't think that Facebook should be fact-checking political ads?
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I don't trust Facebook to do a good job fact-checking political ads.
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A lot of political claims are tricky, are difficult to fact-check check.
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A lot of them are true but misleading.
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These are the kind of categories that the American people needs to hear a full debate about,
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not Mark Zuckerberg's idea of what the debate should be about.
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But in fact much of the philosophical debate about freedom of speech and social media has been just that, philosophical.
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In practice Facebook has taken down political posts.
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It took down an ad run by the Trump campaign,
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Twitter has labeled the president's tweets,
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and all the major platforms have rules restricting posts containing nudity.
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Facebook's been taking this kind of stuff down that entire time,
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and now all of a sudden it's an issue.
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Why is that happening?
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And you hear conservative bias,
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but it's actually not conservative bias.
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They've been taking down that same type of hate speech since 2008,
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2009, and there's just more of that type of hate speech.
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The speech of Trump and his party has like come to the rule.
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It is not that they have all of a sudden changed the rules to be biased against conservatives.
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I think people who genuinely believe that,
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you know, private companies should not in any way interfere with anything a politician is saying,
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no matter how objectionable it might be.
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Do you think that there is an argument there?
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That is a valid argument.
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That yes, if you're Mark Zuckerberg,
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It makes sense to say that,
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look, if I start moderating content,
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I'm going to invite a discussion over the regulatory terms that be,
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over my company, over content moderation.
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And to that I would say, well, let's welcome that.
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Because I think the time is ripe to have an open discussion about what's right in this society and what's wrong,
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especially when we have such a dirty and noisy media environment thanks to Facebook.
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In a blog post, Facebook said the responsibility to fact check political ads shouldn't be left to private companies,
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writing, The sooner Facebook and other companies are subject to democratically accountable rules on this, the better.
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But in the meantime, ahead of the 2020 election,
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Facebook announced it is allowing users to opt out of political ads.
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For some critics though, the question remains, is it enough?

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Praticare la conversazione in inglese attraverso contenuti reali come questo video è un metodo efficace per migliorare le proprie abilità linguistiche. Qui si discute di temi attuali e controversi come la censura sui social media, consentendo di acquisire vocabolario specifico e di rimanere informati. Inoltre, ascoltare le opinioni di esperti aiuta a comprendere diverse prospettive, offrendo un'opportunità per esercitare il shadow speech e affinare la propria tecnica di shadowing. Questo approccio non solo migliora la pronuncia, ma aiuta anche a sviluppare una maggiore fluidità e confidenza nel parlare l'inglese.

Grammatica ed espressioni nel contesto

Nella discussione si possono notare diverse strutture grammaticali e espressioni utili. Ecco alcune delle più significative:

  • “We should err on the side of greater expression” - Questa frase evidenzia l'importanza di un linguaggio chiaro e persuasivo, un'ottima struttura da utilizzare in argomentazioni.
  • “To remove content when it can cause real danger” - Utilizza la forma passiva per sottolineare l'importanza del soggetto in questione. È utile in contesti formali e di dibattito.
  • “I think that that argument is entirely in Mark Zuckerberg's profit interest” - Qui si usa un'ottima espressione per esprimere opinioni personali; utile per l'argomentazione e il dibattito.

Queste strutture possono essere replicate durante le pratiche di shadow speak per arricchire il proprio vocabolario e migliorare la coerenza delle proprie frasi.

Trappole comuni nella pronuncia

Nel video, ci sono alcune parole e frasi che possono risultare difficili da pronunciare per i non madrelingua. Prestare attenzione a queste espressioni è fondamentale per migliorare la pronuncia inglese:

  • “Censorship” - La pronuncia corretta richiede attenzione sul suono 's' e 'c'. Assicurati di non omettere il suono finale.
  • “Misinformation” - Un termine chiave; pratica ripetendo la parola lentamente per enfatizzarne le sillabe.
  • “Glorified” - L'accento sulla seconda sillaba può essere sfuggente. Esercitati a ripeterla per una pronuncia più chiara.

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Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?

Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.

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