Nowadays, with the new technologies and social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Tumblr, it is possible to offend people without facing the music. Hate is sent, not only anonimously, but openly. This is due to the fact that, while threatening people's lives and making fun of terrorism is punished, sending hate to others is not. Many people are victims of this, especially celebreties, since they are judged by everybody around the world. This issue's outcome is that a lot of famous people stop interacting with fans through social media or delete their accounts in these social networks. Clearly, this is not something we should feel proud about.
One of the many solutions that come to my mind is deleting the account of those people who offend others deliberately. Nevertheless, it is too easy to create another profile in these kind of webs, therefore, it would not be effective. Another possibility is to impose fines, for instance, if someone sends a tweet that is hateful or spiteful, they are fined with 25€; if they do it again, then they have to pay 75€; if they do not stop and carry on tweeting this type of messages, 200€ have to be paid; and so on.
In a nutshell, it is a difficult task trying to stop the hate that can be found in these networks. However, with these solutions or similar ones, we can make it more difficult for people to send hate to normal people or well-known ones, because this is a pretty important problem that affects millions of citizens every hour, every day.
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