Stereotypes In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

Do Twitter, Snapchat, and Facebook cover up free speech? People that run media sites, such as Instagram and Facebook have bias and shut down pages if they “Violate their Community Guidelines”. I follow a lot of pages that have been shut down because they say opinions that apparently violent their terms when all they did was say their opinion and express their right to free speech. This goes along with Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, when the government is censoring people and not letting them read books. This makes it, so no opinions are expressed and only one idea is brought to the conversion making no one think other ideas because the other ideas are all destroyed.

The main character Montag used to burn books, but he realized that books held ideas that shouldn’t be destroyed. He rebelled and found a group of outsiders that memorizes books. One member we meet named Granger says “We’re book burners, too. We read the books and burnt them, afraid they’d be found.” This is similar to how Facebook shuts down or “burns books” of certain authors on their platform.

When Beatty, Montag’s boss finds out that Montag has a friend that has books, Montag grabs their flamethrower. Beatty says, “Well, that’s one way to get an audience. Hold a gun on a man and force him to listen to your speech. Speech away.” This is showing that if they want their

Yes, it does give people access to new ideas and thoughts but not if someone in charge of a website can censor ideas they don’t agree with. Fahrenheit 451 is like old broadcast television when there was only three channels and they all agreed and had the same agenda as each other. The promise of the internet is publishing all different opinions and thought but if everyone goes to the same one or two places on the internet to get their information then we are back to the same situation. A few people can control the narrative and have their agenda dominate the conversation on social