A situation where I have seen the “iron laws” of internet communication apply was during a situation where Soldiers made a bad photo in front of a casket. I put a link to the article below. I was in the military when it happened, and it was during the time when social media was beginning to become popular. My Space existed! It caused an investigation in the Army about the behavior of Soldiers. Another situation was the abuses in the Abu Ghraib prison by Army Soldiers. I put a link to the Wikipedia article, which includes a few of the pictures. The impact of those pictures caused the Army to be shamed and it made our supervisors and commanders demand that we not use social media.

It was really too early for everyone to have a collective awareness of the iron laws of the internet to have helped avoid problems in those two situations I witnessed with social media communication. These two situations actually helped the Army shape it's policies related to social media within the Department of the Army. I do currently think that individual users of social media have a reasonable expectation that others will listen to them and interpret them fairly because with Facebook Live, YouTube live and other platforms like Twitch, a person can be heard live and interact with viewers immediately. I use Facebook Live each week for my podcast and I feel accurately heard.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/investigation-widens-soldiers-photo-mocking-funerals-n33716

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse