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Dorothy Chou, a senior policy analyst at Google wrote in her blog post, “It 's alarming not only because free expression is at risk, but because some of these requests come from countries you might not suspect -- Western democracies not typically associated with censorship.” Other countries can also send in requests to Google and ask them to take things down, but Google rarely complies with those requests. Being a U.S based company; Google has complied with 93% of the government requests from our own

Fire burns everything; it brings nothing but destruction and ruin. Miguel Servetus and his ideas were meant to burn at the stake, but they are still around today, Out of the Flames by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone explains the importance of his ideas and the history around it. Although this book provides a lot of important information, a lot of it is unnecessary. The authors jump around a lot trying to present their argument and their research. This book is a book about a book that discusses the

There did exist a pre-printing press increase and interest in scriptural availability which could be seen as precipitating religious reform independent of the invention of moveable type. In this view, the lay desire for textual access enabled the acceptance of Luther’s emphasis on the return to scripture, and furthermore prepared early modern Europe for the new technology: ‘The steady rising demand for texts in the late Middle Ages set the stage for the invention of printing’. Indeed, the process

"Arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity" (Kofi Annan, Fmr. United Nations Secretary General) Kofi Annan believes that globalization is unavoidable when he compares it to the laws of gravity which is inescapable, this is exemplified when he states that “arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity”. He believes it is pointless because it is bound to happen and instead of fighting against globalization individuals should embrace and take

The invention of the printing press was a great influence on Renaissance culture and literature. Its inventor, Johannes Gutenberg said himself “like a star it shall scatter the darkness of ignorance and cause a light herefore unknown to shine amongst men” (Gutenberg, n.d.). By creating the market for the printed word, he paved the way for literature in the Renaissance. Gutenberg’s printing press single-handedly revolutionized the way stories were shared. He took the power of the word away from

Dear diary, Through all my adventures across the wonderful world of literature I log my judgement of the printing press changing our language right in front of me. 1946, the renaissance. March 12 Johann Gutenberg… for all he is worth, I despise him. The man named a hero! A Hero! Gutenberg a name to be remembered. Accomplishing a worldwide evolution in literature. His motivation not that of revolution, merely greed. His desire above all else is to become rich, yet I still envy all his name stands

have any rights and no land. Also, there would not be any Christian churches throughout Western Civilization if it was not for the Edict of Milan. Following the Edict of Milan giving Christianity tolerance, Jonathan Gutenberg inventing the printing press is

Filtered Freedom Hate speech is often misunderstood because it can be classified as either careless or intentionally hurtful. Many people interpret careless statements as acts of aggression, but with good reason. It would be false to say that the freedom of speech has never been manipulated to inflict damage upon others. Questions have been risen of what hate speech is and if it should be allowed to be viewed by public access. Alan M. Dershowitz delivers an enumerative definition of the term by asserting

Having fallen asleep in the tub of water- Allie woke with the worst headache she had ever had; her body was withered, her fingers wrinkled like the skin of a prune. Hastily, Allie got out of the tub of cold water and dried her body and then slipped into a nightgown and got into bed; she figured it was nearly daybreak because she heard a rooster crowing somewhere in the distance. Closing her eyes to the dull throbbing in her head, she fell asleep quickly. When Allie awoke, she was in a field of wildflowers

Internet censorship in China, South Africa and other countries is something that prohibits real discussion from taking place regarding issues that affect the public. For instance, in China, certain key word searches are automatically filtered out so that users cannot find the information they are seeking. While Internet censorship may be good from one perspective (in terms of stemming the flow of child pornography, curbing false information, or putting a nation’s interests first), it can be viewed