This week’s topic is very interesting yet alarming for many of us because it opens up the side effects of the technology even more to let us all know and be aware of it. The topic “Ethics, Privacy, Porn (Revenge) and Terrorism” covers all of the aspects and the material provided for the reading was sufficient enough to understand this topic.
Starting from the article “Terrordotcom: IS’s Social Media Warfare in Syria and Iraq” has enlighten the fact that how social media and internet is being used in order to spread terror around the world. The author in the article made a discussion on the fact that how the terrorist organizations today use internet and most notably social-media network in order to create the effects they desire through a series of on-line activities. The author said that: “From a strategy point of view, IS has employed social media to gain attention to mass media and strategic audiences, amplify and control its messaging in support of its narrative in order to recruit and radicalize followers.”
The second article “Why Privacy Matters Even If You Have ‘Nothing to Hide’”. If you have got nothing to hide, you have got nothing to fear was a common sentence we all have listened in our lives so many times and the debate is not new to make. But the author suggests here that if you have got nothing to hide you still wanted to have your privacy and your personal life being secured. The author further put light on the difference “between nothing to hide” and secrecy by saying that: “The deeper problem with the nothing-to-hide argument is that it myopically views privacy as a form of secrecy. In contrast, understanding privacy as a plurality of related issues demonstrates that the disclosure of bad things is just one among many difficulties caused by government security measures.”
From above this, I think the author is so on point. We all wanted to have some privacy no matter if we have got something to hide or not.
What do you say about this?
The third article i.e. “Why Revenge Porn is Really F*cked Up” was not a new thing for many of us to hear or read but we really do not pay attention to the sensitivity of this topic. In this article, the author has made a discussion about Chrissy Chambers and what had happened to her.
Chamber has been known to many of us by an American activist and YouTube star and she had made a history as being the first ever person in the UK to bring both civil and criminal charges against her former partner who posted the revenge porn. After reading the article, I felt so bad about her. I believe that every person got the right to say NO when they are not OK in a relationship but taking revenge is not maturity rather cruelty which shows the mentality of a person. What happened with Chamber was not a new story, it is happening with many of the females in the same or in different form but it is happening and not all the women raise their voices against the criminal which made them more powerful I think.
What do you say about this? Do you think that we all have to raise voice against the criminality? Does females have to speak up against the humiliations and assaults they bear?
Keeping in mind this week’s topic, I am going to share a news article on the topic of “The Privacy Project: Does Privacy Matters?” which further includes many of the articles on the same topic.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/privacy-project-does-privacy-matter
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Hello Rayan I believe we all have to raise a voice against criminality. Often times it is just certain groups, but I truly feel if we want change we all need to recognize the problem so then maybe change can begin. To answer your additional question I feel we all need speak up against the humiliations and assaults on females. All women, but especially black women are oppressed when it comes to these certain rights. We need to protect them and to do so we need to speak up about the unjust cruelties they face. We just elected our first female Vice President in Kamala Harris and just us voicing our encouragement for her breaking these barriers is a step in the right direction I feel for showing woman are just as important.
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I like your post! I believe if we want to change we must find out why we are doing something or why we feel the need to do something then try to correct that. I believe we need to raise our voices and speak up for humiliations and assaults on females. Assaults are getting more and more common and we do not really address them or want to think of them. We need to step up together and show people we are done with this violence and hate.
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yea I also believe that women have a right speak up and raise against the narcists. The men with low insecurity about themselves and find joy in lowering other insecurities for selfish hurtful reasons. I have seen many articles like this and i have also experience how narcistic people manipulate peoples heads thinking their always right and not listening to what u have to say.
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