Civic Duty

" When examining the question Does government have the civic duty to monitor internet content, I look at the internet for answers. I determined that the government doesn't exactly control because social media reserves its rights to be free from control in the clause of the first amendment "" Freedom of the Press"". At first I believed this statement but when looking at more information I learned that our local governments turn to social media first when looking for a person. I was talking to a police officer when he told me something that stuck with me. ""Everything you thought you deleted never really did get deleted off the internet"". I soon realized he was right I saw television shows where detectives look for clues in social media. When dealing with …show more content…
Now a negative side of that thought if I did post something I don't always want to be monitored with every post. In local government in New York, New York City created 280 social profiles to become one of the most connected cities worldwide _Ñ_ connecting citizens to the people who run their subways, fix their potholes, and shield their health and property. The government uses the internet to send out information as far as natural disasters as well. When a 5.9-magnitude earthquake shook the Northeast in 2011, many New Yorkers learned about it on Twitter _ÑÓ seconds before the shaking actually started. Tweets from people at the epicenter near Washington, D.C., outpaced the quake itself, providing a unique early warning system. (Conventional alerts, by contrast, can take two to 20 minutes to be issued.) Seeking to take advantage of these crowdsourced warnings, the U.S. Geological Survey is hard at work on TED, short for Twitter Earthquake Dispatch. These are useful in todays society because we can alert each other with possible