While Edward Snowden was working for the NSA under a subcontractor, he noticed many questionable and disturbing methods used by the government to spy on and collect data from its citizens. He decided to collect as many incriminating documents as possible, leak them to the press while in China. During his stay in China, newspapers like the UK’s Guardian, and the Washington Times, released the documents leaked that showed the NSA’s real time information collection system from American citizens via the cellular provider Verizon, and the NSA umbrella program PRISM. (Edward Snowden Biography) Snowden considers these actions, and the intentional efforts to hide them from the public, an outrageous violation of privacy, and he chose to give up his
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Employers have been taking advantage of the public nature of the internet and using it to spy on their employees, and using their posts as a reason to fire them. While bigotry is in awful in every way, shape, or form, people are entitled to their nasty opinions, whether it be outloud or online. And now that is it a new and notorious method of not only prospective employers, but also college admissions offices, and schools in general, the general public has conformed to the expected standards of those groups, instead of standing up for their right to privacy online. Many parents now closely monitor their children’s social media accounts, or don’t let them have an account at all, to ensure they won’t tarnish their reputation and endanger their chances of getting a job or being accepted into a college. Most people now censor themselves on their accounts, only post formal photos and statuses on websites like Facebook and Twitter, instead of challenging the social media companies themselves, to force them to make their private accounts truly private. Now if someone is doing something illegal online, that should have consequences and law enforcement officers should get involved in that kind of situation, but that kind of information would find its way to prospective employers, since breaking a law goes on someone’s permanent record. But people shouldn’t be getting …show more content…
The government of Guy Montag, the protagonist of Ray Bradbury’s revolutionary novel, discontinued and manufactured the fear of books, because literature promotes free thinking, individuality, and nonconformity, which is hard to control. The intellectual habits of the past were replaced with superficial activities just to keep people busy and entertained, Captain Beatty even said, "'We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought'"(Bradbury, 61-62) in respect to how the firemen and the government keep order by banning books. Montag, who was a fireman, who ironically didn’t put out fires, but instead started them to burn books found in people’s homes, broke the mold, and went looking for substance in his life. He deviated from the monotonous patterns in life. began hiding books in his house and partnered up with a former professor, trying to become educated, and by doing this joined the ranks of the minority who ached for the return to the old way of intellectualism playing a critical part in society. His plan to read and learn went horribly wrong when his own wife, who was perfectly content with her one dimensional world turned him in, and he was sent to his own home to burn his own books. After fleeing the scene and
Employers have been taking advantage of the public nature of the internet and using it to spy on their employees, and using their posts as a reason to fire them. While bigotry is in awful in every way, shape, or form, people are entitled to their nasty opinions, whether it be outloud or online. And now that is it a new and notorious method of not only prospective employers, but also college admissions offices, and schools in general, the general public has conformed to the expected standards of those groups, instead of standing up for their right to privacy online. Many parents now closely monitor their children’s social media accounts, or don’t let them have an account at all, to ensure they won’t tarnish their reputation and endanger their chances of getting a job or being accepted into a college. Most people now censor themselves on their accounts, only post formal photos and statuses on websites like Facebook and Twitter, instead of challenging the social media companies themselves, to force them to make their private accounts truly private. Now if someone is doing something illegal online, that should have consequences and law enforcement officers should get involved in that kind of situation, but that kind of information would find its way to prospective employers, since breaking a law goes on someone’s permanent record. But people shouldn’t be getting …show more content…
The government of Guy Montag, the protagonist of Ray Bradbury’s revolutionary novel, discontinued and manufactured the fear of books, because literature promotes free thinking, individuality, and nonconformity, which is hard to control. The intellectual habits of the past were replaced with superficial activities just to keep people busy and entertained, Captain Beatty even said, "'We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought'"(Bradbury, 61-62) in respect to how the firemen and the government keep order by banning books. Montag, who was a fireman, who ironically didn’t put out fires, but instead started them to burn books found in people’s homes, broke the mold, and went looking for substance in his life. He deviated from the monotonous patterns in life. began hiding books in his house and partnered up with a former professor, trying to become educated, and by doing this joined the ranks of the minority who ached for the return to the old way of intellectualism playing a critical part in society. His plan to read and learn went horribly wrong when his own wife, who was perfectly content with her one dimensional world turned him in, and he was sent to his own home to burn his own books. After fleeing the scene and