Julie Zhuo’s essay, Where Anonymity Breeds Contempt, does not effectively reach content providers because of Zhuo’s lack of consideration to the provider’s own experiences on the topic of trolling. Throughout her essay she argues that content providers need to take control over trolling by not allowing anonymous commenters, watching over comments, and asking users to report trolls. By following these steps, Zhuo believes that trolling will decrease. Trolling is when someone makes hateful or rude comments online- usually anonymously. Zhuo’s essay was published in November of 2010 during a time when Facebook and Twitter were the most popular social media sites.…
Hactivism as a process has a dual-edged character. The organised activity exposes the “transparency and accountability” (Diamond 71) of global power exploitation. However, such methods are seen questionable in the accountability and transparency of their practice(s). The main concern with hactivism is the preconceived notions of its values are translated offline as vigilantism. However, the whole concept of vigilantism is based on the idea of not condoning individual action to exercise authority if there is an immediate presence enforcing it.…
The Patriot Act was instated in 2002 after the tragic 9/11 event. Times have changed and so have the objectives of the Patriot Act. The government should not have the power of surveillance because it is not being used as intended and gives the US a bad reputation. The government should not have the power of surveillance because it is not being used as intended.…
Lone Wolf’s early life experiences took place within the Native community that had few material resources, and little economic or political control, due to a militaristic federal government imposed program that attempted to indoctrinate American Indians. Beginning in the 1870s, the federal government implemented institutionalized education as a strategy of assimilation. The intent of boarding schools was to force American Indian youths to become United States citizens by removing them from their Native culture. During Lone Wolf’s childhood, the program was implemented across the country, and many public schools barred or discouraged American Indian children from attending. In Montana, Lone Wolf experienced firsthand the boarding school’s military-style…
I want to write a paper about the NSA(National Security Agency). I chose this agency because my late aunt worked for the NSA until retirement. In any event, the NSA's foundation is on collecting, and monitoring intelligence for the United States. Over they years, the NSA has been delegated more tasks to complete, but all of them theoretically stem from collecting and monitoring information One of the main statues that has been argued to justify the NSA being an entity is the Patriot Act. There are others of statues as well.…
On October 1st 2013 in Glen Park library, a branch of the San Francisco Public Library; an FBI agent presented Ross Ulbricht a warrant for his arrest, Ulbricht was the founder and the operator of the notorious, and highly illegal Silk Road Market, operating deep within the internet, which is not accessible by standard search engines, nor is indexed by these search engines. The arrest have sparked a nationwide interest, and introduced a variety of new terms, unknown to most computer users, the new expressions are deep web, dark web, Tor Network, and many others. (Weiser, 2015). Nonetheless, the first attempt to create an anonymous web was attempted not by criminals of the information age, but it was launched by the United States Naval…
Natural rights, privacy, and security are all superior within the Patriot Act. America, now-a-days, are terrorized by foreigners and out-of-state citizens for the control and power over the United States. By reading the primary source documents and commentary texts, it helped to show how the Patriot Act has a relationship to the Bill of Rights because of the reasoning to find a proper balance between national security and individual rights, explaining how the Patriot Act and privacy goes hand in hand with each other, and trying to find a solution to the debate over the Patriot Act. The Reason to finding a proper balance between national security and individual rights is so that the government doesn’t infringe on American rights. On September…
In this sense, the group writes, they are no different than the civil rights protestors of the 1960s. I find anonymous to be absolutely fascinating. Ordinary citizens know how to protest in the streets with signs…
We Are Legion Outline & Essay Outline Topic: there is a media conspiracy to further the government’s propaganda. Thesis statement Social media can bring a huge impact if it is used by ISIS to carry government’s propaganda, it could gain their supporters and increase more power.…
” Anonymous effectively is working towards liberal democracy that security researcher, Ronald J. Deibert, writes about. Through Anonymous’ asymmetric warfare attacks and the inherent nature of the Internet, individuals and groups can combine forces to carry out attacks that is disproportionate to their numbers . Anonymous makes a clear statement about why you should join them in their fight for Internet freedom – free access to the Internet will prompt a societal mind shift that allows individuals to manage personal affairs, grow and develop without fear of…
Why Groups Form and Identity The film “Identity” by KJ Adams is similar to the article “Why Groups Form” by Dr. Jeremy Dean. In the article it states that our identities are formed through the groups which we belong to. In the film the whole idea of the film is that groups are everything and everyone belongs to one.…
The public and supporters claim them to be heroes and saviors of the Internet. Fighting for anonymity and the freedom of information across the public and the Internet. All while sporting the infamous Guy Fawkes mask from the movie "V For Vendetta", symbolizing the distain for governments and love for rebellion and anarchy. All the while shielding the true identities of all protesters and followers world-wide.…
Anonymous’ social roots come by means of its origin, 4chan/b/. From the beginning through to today, 4chan/b/ has been the shared pool of memes, shared jokes, respect for opinions, no matter who they were from, a sense of equality which comes from a sense of anonymity. These social roots hold true and stand at the core of what it means to be an Anon. It’s as simple as just saying you are a member of Anonymous makes you a member of Anonymous and if you can stand the shared humor, insult, and sophomoric behavior of everyone else, you are included in the…
Deep, dark secrets are not an aspect of life that came to age with 21st century technology. However, through the modern medium of the World Wide Web, there has been a new cultural phenomenon called “PostSecret,” which provides people a window to anonymously share their secrets. This phenomenon began in 2005 when Frank Warren initiated an art project that welcomed people to anonymously mail him their secrets on postcards. Since 2005, on every Sunday Warren has released new batches of secrets so that the PostSecret Community is able to go online and view other people’s secrets. While I argue that this community does not have a finite amount of community members, there is clear evidence of its great following.…
In 1999, Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems said, "Privacy is dead. Get over it!" Do you agree? Explain your answer.…