Freedom Of Speech

I was looking through all my articles and I really don't think i ever wrote one about freedom of speech. All of my articles could potentially have a way of leading into the 1st amendment but none at this current time do, however some of the articles for my paper i have gathered do talk about the like between privacy and freedom of speech, which is always interesting to learn about. Like Do the makers of a website that has minor"threats" and abusive language have a right to privacy within their supporters? and is their speech protected. Well how about the names of the people this site puts on their list, do they have a right to privacy and not having their names on the list or is it free speech to be able to write and say stuff about them including their names? in the article New Version Of Nuremberg Files Yanked Off Web I can only see the fact that their 1st amendment right is not being violated. Put aside my own personal feelings with the issue, I do believe both pro-choice and pro-life activists have a right to express to their world their own opinion and even have websites adhering to that issue. However this website was different, It gave out names and addresses of doctors and escorts for abortion clinics and this could cause harm to these doctors etc. and they had threats and slandering words on there website which is not a right you have. Do i believe they have free speech to express their hatred for pro-choice's? yes but to have threats and harmful words NO it is not protected. . "he case was brought by several abortion providers and organizations to stop the distribution of Old West-style "WANTED" posters of abortion providers called, the "Deadly Dozen." The posters, which included personal information such as home addresses, phone numbers and children's school locations, followed similar poster campaigns against three abortion providers who were subsequently murdered. The Deadly Dozen then became the basis of Horsley's "Nuremberg. Files." This is not protected speech at all and this is why this site will no longer exist along with any other sites this man has made.

Privacy

When researching for my paper on privacy I have come across many articles involving facebook privacy being an issue. Recently I have known an actual case where facebook has directly effected one of my friends and their life. My friend from home is turning 21 so he is under the legal drinking age, and he is graduating a year early from college and is expecting to get a big time job when he gets out, well that was until his last interview. The interviews started out with over 400 people from different parts of the U.S. then went down to 200, then down to 50 now it is down to the final 4, which my friend is one of. Well to be at the final four in itself is amazing and even if you don't get this job it means you have a great chance of getting any other job in that field, but what my friend Tom didn't know was the intense back round check they would do on him. I am not talking about police background check because tom has never been in trouble in his life but it meant a face book and myspace background check. Well they found tom on facebook and searched through his pictures and saw one where he had a beer in his hand and used that picture against him saying he was underage and it was illegal and he lost the job over this picture. Now i know what most people would say, well its his own fault. But what ever happen to privacy, which is what the issue is here. Did tom have a right for his own account on facebook to be kept private or because he put it out there does anyone have a right to access it? The realization is with the growing internet craze what is safe and private anymore? Even if I put my facebook account of private and only allow those who i personally know to look or access my account there are ways of getting into my account. How private is privacy when it comes to the internet? The problem is with the internet it is so easy to access anything you want from someone Else's computer you don't even have to be in the same room. If i was to put a picture of me drinking underage in a filing cabinet in my room no one would have access to that picture without a warrant yet if i put that same picture on my computer on facebook and kept it just as private anyone could get it without a warrant and I believe that is where the privacy gets divided.

ICANN VOTES AGAINST DOT-XXX DOMAIN

Since we have talked about this in class and online before i thought it was interesting enough to talk about. I thought the idea of changing it so all porno sites had to have the same domain name was a great idea. It is understandable why the porno sites wouldn't want this though. If all the domain for porno were .xxx then it would be so much easier to monitor what is put on these sites and to block these sites from children's computers. Right now children are able to access some of these sites because they can't all be blocked because they are using so many different .com .org. xx type endings. It is not a secret either that child porn somehow makes it s way onto the Internet so this would also be a fantastic way of making sure these illegal child porn does not end up splashed all over some guy/girls computer screen. This will also help when somebody is trying to reach a site and they type in the wrong name and a porno site pops up. This way you would have to type in .xxx if you wanted to see the sites. I agree with the Religious groups who are concerned that it would help the .xxx agencies expand, but there are so many porno sites all over the Internet that expanding it on an .xxx would be okay because once again it would be so much easier to regulate and block those sites. in another article i read it was talking to some porno sites and they said their biggest problem would be that people would start going to any xxx site instead of a specific one because they would be easier to find and would take away business from their own sites. Now honestly this is a great business point they can make because how many different way can you have the same site. People will type in anything instead of a specific site. Another problem would be the space. There are sites named girlongirl.com or girlongirl.org or girlongirl.xx different sites with the same name but different endings but on the .xxx this won't be able to happen and some businesses will have to think of different names. I also believe it will reduce privacy even more because of the .xxx would make it obvious and easy to monitor.