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Internet Censorship You are at work and the phone rings. It is the school principal from the high school your daughter attends. He politely tells you that your daughter is being suspended from school and asks that you please come pick her up. After digging a little deeper, you find out that she is being punished for posting to the internet, a book report based writings of James Joyce. The reason for the suspension is not because the material was plagiarized, but because the content of the material

There are developmental issues that surround Title 2 and the internet. Does a regulated system generated what is necessary to stimulate the economy and the competition? The research that was released by the FCC and the Electronic Frontier Society has provided great insight into the issue. Net Neutrality is a trident of an issue; it cannot be fully encompassed by one of the following disciplines. Economics, Technological and Political science are the main three that encompass what Net neutrality has

tactics being used by the RIAA, there are of course, a number by a number of people and organizations opposed to them. One of the major groups in opposition to the Recording Industry Association of America is the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). “The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) was created to defend our rights to think, speak, and share our ideas, thoughts, and needs using new technologies, such as the Internet and the World Wide Web. EFF is the first to identify threats to our basic

private information you speak or type is monitored, recorded and placed on file? Thesis: Wiretapping is no different and it’s an invasion of our privacy as hard working citizens, it’s a violation of our 4th amendment. Ethos: According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, wiretapping has been prevalent due to the government’s affiliation and support of several telecommunication companies Value Step: Wiretapping is pertinent to all of us, because as US citizens, we are monitored every day. In this day

Numerous technologies have been developed to help correctional facilities secure contraband as well as keep those who enter safe. Contraband is anything that is not permitted in a certain area but has been illegally smuggled in. For example in prisons drugs, weapons, and cellphones are just a few forms of contraband. The Ion Scanner, Facial recognition system and the body scanners all work in different ways to discover contraband and have been used in many real cases to find contraband in prisons

The year is 1939, the start of the Second World War. During this era, alliances such as the Axis or Allied Powers were able to communicate their battle plans by sending messages to one another using certain codes. As an Allied Power, the United States formed the Single Security Agency to divert and interpret Axis Power communications; this is also referred to as code breaking (History Chanel 1). The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor brought an end to the Single Security Agency. However, by the end

The Controversy Over Internet Censorship      For many people, using the Internet has become practically a new way of life, especially for college students and the like.  Various types of information can be accessed at the touch of a button: anything from encyclopedias, to surveys and essays, to articles from magazines, and adult sites.  Anyone who pays for their Internet service is usually offered space for his or her own web page, and even many free services provide space for personal web

mile and began prosecuting individual users of Napster. Astonishingly, in 2003, “the record industry sued 261 American music fans for sharing songs on peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks, kicking off an unprecedented legal campaign” (Electronic Frontier Foundation). These lawsuits scared many music fans out of using P2P networks, but it also cleared the path for the music industry to attract them in a new way: with legal music download

Freedom “Freedom is never more than one generation from extinction.” These are the words of Ronald Reagan, former President of the United States of America, speaking on the topic of freedom, a subject he frequently dealt with during his long presidency. Over the years, freedom in the U.S. has become an increasingly controversial topic, and the effectiveness of the government in affording these freedoms has been called into question. Through certain historical documents and events, the government’s

access to phone calls either through wiretaps or software that monitors networks. Encryption has been not allowed to by the best possible in some circumstances due to the governments desire to be able to monitor this voice traffic. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has a page with some information on how to protect against such things as wiretapping. The Other End of the Call No matter how secure one endpoint of the call it is only as secure as its weakest link. If the other end of the