This week was jam packed with a lot of information of all the messed up things that go on, on the internet. A lot and I do mean a lot of people really do not realize how to act when they are using the internet. You would think this new generation of kids would know what to do and what not to do while using the web, with all of the presentations and agreements and some classes that they have us take all through high school, so we don’t end up like some of these people who could get in some serious trouble. That ends up being the personal side of this very intensive topic, which only ends up accounting for a fraction of what people in other countries have to do with things, as well as the hackers that try to steal our informations or just make our lives miserable.

One of the topics that was a heavy one was the problem around revenge porn for primarily women. There are a lot of guys who think it is a good idea to either film their partners doing sexual acts or sexting them and getting either pictures or videos from them. Now this does not happen just to women, just like any other issue, but they are the primary target of most of these posts. This goes without saying that this is highly illegal and extremely unethical, along with promoting rape, as the article states. What begins to be the problem is when the people behind this and the people who hear about this have two very different knowledges of the situation. The word on the street is that one of your classmates in college could have made a porn, while that wasn’t it at all, so it could really really destroy someone’s reputation if people do not know the whole story.

Another big topic was how social media can be a very bad place for propaganda and terrorist recruitment. This seems to be a huge tactic for a lot of ISIS member that sometimes can be left up on social median for days to weeks without the right people seeing it. I remember one certain case where this young girl, who I think didn’t even graduate high school, ran off to canid from buffalo because she believed what she saw on the internet. That was a caring thing for me to learn about when I was barely younger then that because I was like how could someone be so stupid and not know that all of that is absolute bullshit. But then I started watching some of these videos and if you aren’t a very informed person, I could see how you might think you have this fight to go fight I guess. Personally I don’t think that it’s too easy to get fooled about those but to each their own. My question to you is, have you ever been a victim of unethical online practices?

Heres an article about the election: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/06/georgia-recount-us-election-biden-trump