Sunday, November 9, 2014

The Lindsey Stone Situation


After researching the incident I found out that Lindsey Stone took a picture of herself with her middle finger up and pretending to yell while being in front of a tomb of a soldier and posted it to Facebook. She claimed that it was an inside joke with her and her friends. But in my opinion there is nothing funny about disrespecting the dead. Especially, disrespecting that died while protecting our country. So in this case it is fair for 30,000 individuals to have the power to determine the course of an individual’s life based on one poor choice made on a social networking site. This is a 30 something year old woman who posted this picture to Facebook. She should’ve known better whether it was a joke or not. She learned her lesson and the ultimate consequence was her termination.

Source: Kim, S. (2012, November 21). Prank Photo at Tomb of Unknowns Raises Free Speech Questions. Retrieved November 10, 2014, from http://abcnews.go.com/Business/veteran-defense-woman-prank-photo-tomb-unknowns/story?id=17777348

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