シャドーイング練習: Should social media be censored? Here's what both sides have to say - YouTubeで英語スピーキングを学ぶ
C1
There's been much debate this past year about freedom of speech and social media.
82 文
文が短すぎたり長すぎる場合は、Editをタップして調整してください。
1
There's been much debate this past year about freedom of speech and social media.
2
We should err on the side of greater expression.
3
They are literally spreading lies, misinformation, propaganda.
4
Companies that engage in censoring or any political conduct will not be able to keep their liability shield.
5
The dilemma, should social media companies censor speech that they deem to be hateful or violent or false?
6
Or should they keep it up in the spirit of freedom of speech?
7
And what happens when the speaker is an elected official?
8
I believe that we have two responsibilities.
9
To remove content when it can cause real danger as effectively as we can,
10
and to fight to uphold as wide of a definition of freedom of expression as possible.
11
Of course, the First Amendment doesn't legally apply to Facebook or to Twitter or to Instagram or YouTube.
12
It was written solely to stop the government,
13
not private companies, from censoring speech.
14
The debate has intensified due to one particular post from President Donald Trump,
15
When the looting starts, the shooting starts.
16
Twitter placed a warning label on the tweet saying it glorified violence.
17
Facebook did nothing.
18
You could say that you're all for free speech,
19
but you also need to protect society,
20
especially when you're in the position Facebook is in.
21
Mark Zuckerberg would say that he is standing for a democratic principle
22
which is freedom of expression and he says
23
that you know a private company like his who is he
24
a billionaire to to be able to you know in some way restrict the speech of the president of the United States.
25
Do you buy that argument?
26
I do not.
27
I think that that argument is entirely in Mark Zuckerberg's profit interest.
28
I think what we're seeing is Mark Zuckerberg is saying,
29
you know, I don't want to rile up the president.
30
I don't want to invite regulatory action.
31
I don't want to tick off the president's following, which also uses Facebook.
32
And, you know, I don't want to alienate them from my own platform
33
because that will detract from my own revenue and engagement on my own platform.
34
But those who argue Facebook should operate in the spirit of free speech say it's a slippery slope to remove
35
or even to fact check political speech.
36
Where would you draw a line if you were Facebook when it comes to a Trump post?
37
So I think that Facebook cordons off a couple of very narrow areas which are wise to
38
shut down and that is things like misleading speech about elections themselves.
39
If Trump posted Hey everyone,
40
go vote on election day on this date,
41
and it was the wrong date.
42
I think that's reasonable to take down because it is timely and also obviously misleading.
43
For things like hate speech,
44
I think that people should know if the president is using hate speech.
45
You don't think that Facebook should be fact-checking political ads?
46
I don't trust Facebook to do a good job fact-checking political ads.
47
A lot of political claims are tricky, are difficult to fact-check check.
48
A lot of them are true but misleading.
49
These are the kind of categories that the American people needs to hear a full debate about,
50
not Mark Zuckerberg's idea of what the debate should be about.
51
But in fact much of the philosophical debate about freedom of speech and social media has been just that, philosophical.
52
In practice Facebook has taken down political posts.
53
It took down an ad run by the Trump campaign,
54
Twitter has labeled the president's tweets,
55
and all the major platforms have rules restricting posts containing nudity.
56
Facebook's been taking this kind of stuff down that entire time,
57
and now all of a sudden it's an issue.
58
Why is that happening?
59
And you hear conservative bias,
60
but it's actually not conservative bias.
61
They've been taking down that same type of hate speech since 2008,
62
2009, and there's just more of that type of hate speech.
63
The speech of Trump and his party has like come to the rule.
64
It is not that they have all of a sudden changed the rules to be biased against conservatives.
65
I think people who genuinely believe that,
66
you know, private companies should not in any way interfere with anything a politician is saying,
67
no matter how objectionable it might be.
68
Do you think that there is an argument there?
69
That is a valid argument.
70
That yes, if you're Mark Zuckerberg,
71
It makes sense to say that,
72
look, if I start moderating content,
73
I'm going to invite a discussion over the regulatory terms that be,
74
over my company, over content moderation.
75
And to that I would say, well, let's welcome that.
76
Because I think the time is ripe to have an open discussion about what's right in this society and what's wrong,
77
especially when we have such a dirty and noisy media environment thanks to Facebook.
78
In a blog post, Facebook said the responsibility to fact check political ads shouldn't be left to private companies,
79
writing, The sooner Facebook and other companies are subject to democratically accountable rules on this, the better.
80
But in the meantime, ahead of the 2020 election,
81
Facebook announced it is allowing users to opt out of political ads.
82
For some critics though, the question remains, is it enough?
アプリをダウンロード
話したすべての文をAIが採点
TRENDING
人気動画
この動画でスピーキングを練習する理由
この動画は、SNSにおける言論の自由と検閲についての重要な議論を扱っています。このような動画を通じて英語を学ぶことで、実際の社会問題に関する対話のスキルを向上させることができます。特に、デリケートな話題について、自分の意見をはっきりと表現する力を養うことができるのが特長です。動画の中で使用される言葉やフレーズを模倣する「英語シャドーイング」を行うことで、語彙力や発音も向上します。興味深い内容が盛り込まれているため、飽きることなく学習を続けることができます。
文法と表現の文脈
この動画では、いくつかの重要な文法構造や表現が使われています。ここではその一部を紹介します。
- 実現不可能な条件文: 「If Trump posted...」このような文を使うことで、条件に基づいた議論を展開しています。
- 受動態: 「is being spread」などの受動態を使うことで、情報がどのように流れているかを強調しています。
- 強調構文: 「I believe that we have two responsibilities.」このように、自分の意見を強調して述べることで、聞き手に対して説得力を持たせています。
これらの表現を学ぶことで、複雑な議論を行う際に、より豊かな言語表現が可能になります。
よくある発音の罠
この動画の中には、特に発音が難しい言葉やアクセントがあります。たとえば、「censor」と「sensor」は似ていますが、意味が異なります。また、「expression」や「responsibility」のような長い単語も、発音に注意が必要です。これらの単語を繰り返し練習することで、発音が改善され、より自然に話せるようになります。
さらに、発音に自信を持つことは、IELTS スピーキング対策にもつながります。特に「shadow speech」のテクニックを使って、他の話者を真似ることが効果的です。これにより、ネイティブに近い言い回しやイントネーションを習得できます。
シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由
シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。