The significance of Chapter 4 of the book "Voices of Revolution," by Rodger Streitmatter, is the embracing of moving freely between marriages based on true love, and the importance of consensual intimacy as well.
     Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly became one of the first sexual reform papers — published by Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin (her sister). They discussed sex education, promiscuity, abortion, sexual language, and couples living together without the title of married. This began the onward creation of even more publications, including The Word and Lucifer, the Light-Bearer, which fought to bring to light conversations that weren't exactly dinner-table appropriate, but were ones that still needed to be had.
     These topics  fought the typical Victorian couple lifestyle, including marriage and at-home life, and challenged it by putting forth the newfound double standard of how men also committed scandalous sexual acts, but never paid for any of them. Additionally, it was possible for sexual abuse to occur between a wife and husband if the sex was non-consensual, marriage was just a label, while love and level of comfort played a more important role in a woman's mental health. Additionally, it fought a lot of the traditional views of censorship and what is okay to be discussed. For example, in his bi-weekly newspaper, Moses Harman wrote an article discussing the ability to discuss procreation involving horses, but the inability to discuss human procreation without censorship. He questioned the censorship behind distributing important information involving human procreation that isn't easily attainable, by arguing that it is alright, though, for animals to be discussed in this way.
    These publications were important for paving the way toward discussing controversial topics and laying down everything that had to be said out on a big open table.

In an act to silence the opposition (activists), police beat 28 year-old Khaled Said to death because human rights advocates claimed that there was proof he had evidence of police corruption.

Fortunately, Said's death caused an uproar of activists to come forth and band together against police torture. Through the Internet and social media, activists were able to use blogging, Facebooking, Youtubing, filming, photographing, etc. to catch these acts and display them for all to see.

The chilling part of this story is that he was an ordinary businessman who had a video showing officers with illegal drugs and simply wanted to inform the public about this interaction.

Putting into context of the current situation of the United States of America and its new presidency — the danger of silencing the truth is just as possible. With the current president picking and choosing which media outlets he endorses, the favoritism also guarentees a dictated bubble in which his truths are untouchable and the major companies, law enforcement, etc. are untouchable. It would be reassuring to know that as a journalist trying to reveal the truth surrounding law enforcement, we are safe from being beaten up in a public forum, however, is silencing the facts and blurring the line between the truth and ignorance really any different?

Through videos that pop up on Facebook from Al Jazeera, Now This, etc., through created public events (protests, rallies), through short segments and clips from factual news outlets, and through the networking that happens around social media, we have the ability to re-establish this divide between truth and ignorance, and educate the public about what a corrupted government looks like.