Hackers have caused the government billions of dollars in damage over time and leaking tens of thousands of sensitive documents, most for sport. Although not all hackers are out there to cause damage; the Hacktavist group Anonymous is a group that strives to protect the users of the Internet. When many people think of hackers they automatically think they are doing it for nefarious reasons, they are unaware that most hackers actually help protect and improve the everyday life we have through the internet by not only strengthening the sites we use everyday, but also taking down known black hat sites and even protecting civil right by allowing us to see the vital information withheld from us by the government.
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Anonymous is now, and has been for a while, taking down ISIS promoting and even recruiting social media accounts. These accounts are being used to recruit people around the world to ISIS and Anonymous is taking the first step to taking them down. In the article raincoaster states, “ISIS has done much of their recruiting work through social media channels: Facebook and Twitter, as well as more esoteric platforms. They use social media, particularly Twitter, as a propaganda tool and on this front they are considerably in advance of NATO and other Western forces, who tend to view such use as more of a risk than an advantage. And it is risky; meta data has revealed more than one fighter's location, and Russians will not soon forget the soldier who made headlines for the trail of selfies he left all over the Ukraine, proving that Moscow's claims of having retreated were untrue. By bringing the war to social media, ISIS stepped right into Anonymous' home turf. And they're not likely to forget that any time soon.”, This quote shows a lot but, above all shows how much can be done through social media and Anonymous rules it. They are able to limit and control social media due to their sheer size. It almost makes it seem like a war on two fronts one through the traditional style and they other through the internet. With ISIS being such a big threat to The United States and all of our allies, and though it may be illegal the US has allowed the take down of ISIS social media accounts with no repercussions. Due to this government statement it is open season on any terrorist accounts and Danny Yardon with the Wall Street Journal states, “the leaderless hacking group boasted on its Twitter accounts that it had disrupted the Twitter
According to the new FBI numbers, 47 percent of hate crimes in 2014 were motivated by race, over 20 percent by anti-LGBT animus, and approaching 19 percent by religion (Potok 2). The use of hate speech is a precursor to more serious crimes that greatly impact the United States, especially within politics. Hate speech should be seen as a precursor to more serious crimes and violence because hate speech causes society to be more accepting toward certain violent behaviors and hate speech allows for negative stereotypes to be used against marginalized groups of people.
According to the new FBI numbers, 47 percent of hate crimes in 2014 were motivated by race, over 20 percent by anti-LGBT animus, and approaching 19 percent by religion (Potok 2). The use of hate speech leads to imminent hate crimes, especially when such speech is ramped within politics. Hate speech should be seen as a precursor to more serious crimes and violence because hate speech causes society to be more accepting toward certain violent behaviors and hate speech allows for negative stereotypes to be used against marginalized groups of people.
Being black and unemployed is one of the phenomena that continues to be observed. When it comes to the social environment, most blacks tend to be less educated than others, jobless or lack the social intelligence to obtain the skills for employment. Blacks continue to be viewed as incompetent and non-compatible to the job market. “The United States is comfortable with stereotypes. Indeed, we revel in them. Stereotypes serve as a useful function: they help reduce complexity, nuances and dilemmas of life to manageable proportions” (2008). When it comes to applying for a job online, you have to take a quiz or an assessment test. It also requires you to answer your ethnicity and your disability. Therefore, you are discriminated against before the
Tennis superstar Serena Williams faced doubt from her healthcare team when she informed them that she believed she was experiencing a postnatal pulmonary embolism(Haskell 2018). She had a history of attaining life-threatening blood-clots yet, according to her cover story in Vogue, her nurse believed her pain medicine was causing her confusion. Williams knew she needed a cat scan and a heparin drip and it wasn’t until her doctor was finally called that she received the treatment she needed. Unfortunately, her story is not the only one. In a BuzzFeed video titled My Doctor Didn’t Believe My Pain, women narrate experiences in which they struggled to receive proper healthcare all due to doctors’ disbelieve in their symptoms. These women fought,
The international hacktivist organization set out on a mission to shut down the Twitter profiles of individuals suspected to be ISIS supporters. Anonymous claims it has already caused 25,000 of the 39,000 suspected ISIS profiles to be
As a child, I didn’t think of myself as different. My mind was a labyrinth of immature and mature thoughts alike, Boys. Why them? Why would anyone want to be one? Girls. They had all the pretty trinkets: Barbies, makeup, dresses, and everything pink. That’s what I wanted. And as I grew older, I became attracted to boys. In that way. I didn’t know it was unaccepted; or “wrong.” I thought everyone just liked who they liked and that’s that. I misunderstood completely.
As the first child of an immigrant family, I’ve always had this invisible pressure loaded on my shoulders. It may be from the fact that my parents’ first language was not English, or that as Koreans, we were a minority race. But one thing is true for sure - my love for my family is unlimited, unrestricted, and unconditional, no matter the flaws involed. And I believe that this love comes from the problems and issues I’ve had to deal with.
Speech is much like the fashions in clothing. Most of us dress according to "the style of the day." The shoes we wear and the shirts we put on usually what is considered "fashionable." If you choose to ignore the understood dress rules set by society, than your chances of being accepted become slim. In the same manner, when you ignore the majority's methods of speech, you become less accepted for it. If you buy a "cool" Tommy Hilfiger shirt, nobody looks at you any less for giving in to the standard instead of wearing a pink and orange poke-a-dotted shirt like you might have wanted to. You have not degraded yourself for conforming, but instead have opened opportunities for an audience. Just the same, when you change your manner of
Stereotypes are prevailing and oversimplified ideas of particular groups of people or certain things, and they have been around for a long time. Stereotypes are immensely detrimental to a myriad of people because they abject and discriminate them, as well as cause division and separation amongst certain communities. Breaking stereotypes is important due to the social climate that we are currently in today. Racism and discrimination are ubiquitous because people of colour are painted in a negative light due to the stereotypes they are given.
In the aftermath of the Paris attack last week which left 129 dead, Anonymous declared an all-out cyber war with the Islamic State. Also earlier this year, following the terrorist attacks in various countries, the hacker group took down a number of social networking accounts with links to the terrorist group, ISIS, later declaring that the cyber world belongs to them and not to ISIS.
We worked together when I was Design Director at Squeeze Jeans. Tony shot and produced our ads at Squeeze. Tony and I designed and made a denim "made to order" out-fit for HELLO KITTY to wear to a YM magazine event at RoseLand Ballroom as Stephen's date. Also, we did a live TV spot for Fox, shot out of our 4th floor walk up studio on 6th Ave & 38th, on September 9, 2001 in conjunction with a British Hair Stylist & hair care product. Tony prepared the models hair and makeup live on the show using the hair products. Our models & I were with you again at the stylist salon in Chelsea on the morning of September 11, 2001.
It was a pleasure meeting with you and Carmen yesterday at your office. After reviewing the information you provided, I decided to visualize and get in the mind of the type of person that would go to a themed bar like this, considering the demographics of the neighbourhood and surrounding areas. What I came up with is someone in between the ages of 25-35, at about the mid-level position in their career, interested in vintage/retro culture, but isn't far removed from contemporary culture. From there I searched the internet for photos with a very strong retro/70s/disco feel as well as more modern photos with retro visual cues like patterns, style of photography, fashion pieces,
On a similar subject, consumers would generally prefer to see targeted ads over generic ads because targeted ads can help consumers shop great prices and make informed decisions about a product they are in the market for. When shopping online, algorithms take your previous data about things like shopping, style preferences, brand preferences, etc. This data can then be used in order to give the consumer ads that relate to these things. So say a consumer shops for a product online, say that particular consumer only shops prices on one particular site for that product. These algorithms can take the information about you shopping for these products and promote advertisements for similar sites that may sell the same or similar products for better
There are many ways that people are different from each other. People can look different, come from different places, born at different times, and live different ways. It is important that we take these characteristic into mind when we meet new people, but we should never rely on stereotypes. While some people may share some traits with a stereotype of a group they belong to, many do not. Stereotypes are very damaging to everyone. It teaches children things that are not true. Many people are misjudged often because of stereotypes. One of the ways these generalizations harms groups, is that it makes some people feel a need to separate themselves from things that the may share with a stereotype, so that they are viewed more individuality. While everyone is different in many ways, we all share things in common.
It is obvious that hacking is one of the many popular topics that the millions of users of the World Wide Web search for, because whenever you type the word “hacking” on google, hundreds of millions of results appear only in merely seconds. The English word “hacking” means the changing of a system to work in ways not intended by the owner, which is in most cases illegal. Hacking does not only stop on hacking other peoples computers , or someone 's account on social networks, however it can be hacking banks, websites, and companies. The main problem for the government or IT companies is that they cannot stop the people from accidentally downloading hacked software. People are tricked into thinking that things on the internet are free and they will download music, movies, and games for free from random websites. What people do not know is that nothing is actually for free, although these random websites may actually give you the