Communications Act of 1934

Because online activities are treated like any other communications, the rules of privacy should apply. When people engage in online activities they have a legitimate expectation of privacy and this privacy is violated when the government accesses online activities without a warrant. The government should therefore…

benefit the safety of the general public. Surveillance, by definition, is the act of carefully watching someone or something especially in order to prevent or detect a crime. If that definition was used when discussing the issue of government surveillance, most public safety activities,…

and if it wasn’t for the creation of the USA Patriot Act in 2001, by President George W. Bush, we probably would have had a larger amount of terrorist attacks then we actually had. The Patriot Act has helped monitor foreign communications, as well as electronic communications in America. This act was created in response to the tragedy that happened on September 11th, 2001 at the World Trade Center in New York. As of December 2011 the Patriot Act has prevented over 42 terrorist attacks on…

Introduction ( thesis ) - James Zeigler, Justin Sanford The use of monitoring software in a business setting carries ethical questions about the level of monitoring conducted by employers and how this monitoring and restriction of access effects employee morale, and corporate trust. Employees will shop, do their banking, check up on personal emails, catch up on social media, tweet and in extreme cases watch their favorite Netflix series or television show. While some of these employees do…

ensure our rights as citizens. As for media and mass communication, the government has its own organization, known as the FCC (Federal Communications Committee) that set the rules to help regulate interstate communication. The FCC was established because of The Communications Act of 1934, replacing the Federal Radio Commission. The statute “combined and organized federal regulation of telephone, telegraph, and radio communications” (“Communications,” 2013). The FCC was established as an…

responsibilities across the Nation” (Homeland Security, 2013, p. 3). “ESF #2 – Communications supports the restoration of communications infrastructure, facilitates the recovery of systems and applications from cyber attack, and coordinates Federal communications support to response efforts during incidents requiring a coordinated Federal response” (FEMA, 2008, p. 1). Simply put, this Emergency Support Function handles all aspects of Communication before, during, and after emergencies. The…

long-standing history. To begin we must understand classifications of communication services un the Communications Act of 1934. Title I of the Communications Act pertains to information services, whereas Title II pertains to telecommunication services. In the early 2000’s access to the internet was viewed as an information service rather than a telecommunications service, and due to this the…

Telecommunications Act of 1996 was signed into existence in order to amend the Communications Act of 1934. The 1934 Act created the Federal Communications Commission to oversee and regulate these industries, so the 1996 Act was created in order to deregulate the media industry. However, the creation of the act represented a major change in American telecommunication law, because it was the first time that the Internet was included in broadcasting and spectrum allotment. What the 1996 Act was met…

favor of net neutrality on February 26, 2015. With this ruling, the FCC reclassified broadband access as a telecommunications service and therefore a common carrier, in turn applying Title 2 of the Communications Act of 1934 to Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Title 2 of the Communications Act of 1934 makes it unlawful for any common carrier to “make any unjust or unreasonable discrimination in charges, practices, classifications, regulations, facilities, or services” (47 U.S. Code § 202).…

the Enabling Law, the rest of the political system was Nazified, turning the former Democratic government into a single party police state. With the death of President Hindenburg in 1934, Hitler combined the role of Chancellor and President into a uniform role, dictating his role as the Fuhrer of Germany, and by 1934, Hitler was enforcing Nazi doctrines and ideologies on all aspects of life in Nazi Germany. With the passage of President Hindenburg, Hitler also required all armed German forces…