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A paper on tech companies, government regulation, monopoly power, censorship, and the ramifications of these factors. While the paper does not offer up any sweeping solutions, the range of issues it covers is quite in depth, and helps to outline the range of problems in tech companies and social media sites.

A paper on tech companies, government regulation, monopoly power, censorship, and the ramifications of these factors. While the paper does not offer up any sweeping solutions, the range of issues it covers is quite in depth, and helps to outline the range of problems in tech companies and social media sites.

Highlights the holes one must jump through just to jump from carrier to carrier. Must fight to make simpler, mandatory, and widespread.

Provides steps on how to jailbreak an iphone. The apple version of opening your phone up to the community. Leads to unsigned code and deeper development and even unlocking

Technology plays a huge part in sex trafficking because this is where most predators find their young victims. This site will provide information on how technology causes sex trafficking, but also how it prevents it.

This paper covers the range of current censorship, the difficulty of leaving existing networks, and interoperability. The article also covers proposed laws, and potential reforms to existing legislation that may help alleviate some of the issues with large social media networks.

This paper covers the range of current censorship, the difficulty of leaving existing networks, and interoperability. The article also covers proposed laws, and potential reforms to existing legislation that may help alleviate some of the issues with large social media networks.

CNN describes how Facebook abuses our privacy to make money. They seem to question if people can just disregard their privacy and move on to the next big thing.

A judge recently ordered google to hand over private information from customers without a warrant. That's a big no no according to our Constitution.

This article talks about the FBI was denied access to monitor a mans computer. The reason being is that the feds did not have enough evidence to provide to the judge.

Article in defense of the bill that is facing opposition in DC. Provides arguments as to why this bill should pass and the effects it could have.

There's a problem arising among the millennial generation, a generation that values art and culture. But it's beginning to take a turn, it doesn't like any form of authoritarian figure, whether it be from the left or right. These are the people who stand up against false grievances and over exaggerated remarks towards race, color, and gender.

This is completely true, this generation has been so manipulated by the media, which they have depended on so fiercely as of late, that they will listen to anything they hear, and automatically believe they are experts in the field. People need to educate themselves, and grow up, and fast, because a generation of socialist, social justice warriors, that are uneducated, and have a twisted sense of justice have risen.

A New Yorker article about whether primary care doctors should treat mental illness with the shortage of Psychiatrists available to meet demand.

Right now the rules of what you can-and can't-say on the internet are being rewritten by twenty-something tech executives. Cross your fingers.

This article surveyed 500,000 teens to determine how screen time affects their mental health. It goes over how mental health impacts children's development.

Our Digital Age has witnessed enormous advancements in technology however, it may be a two-edged sword. Technology has seen an increase in the violation of social justice issues just in the last few years. Issues such as hate crimes, harassment, discrimination, and unlawful surveillance are a few topics that are being addressed in this article.

This article touches on the expected Facebook snooping by employers.

This article is referring to the recent ban across major social media companies. This ban was most notably given to past president Donald Trump, for his connection/encouragement of the recent terrorist attack on the U.S Capitol.

It is common for employers to search the employee. In March, Facebook stated they would consider taking legal action against employers who demanded the usernames and passwords of applicants.

The website offers links to various sources of information on the collection and distribution of surveilled data from government agencies in an attempt to inform its readers and covers the paranoia tinted tone of those who find government surveillance in todays society to be too close to "Big Brother" methods and presents an argument for their point of view through the methods of MIT professor Gary Marx. The argument is presented in a series of questions on the ethical stance of what the government surveils, what the surveillance consists of as well as the consequences of any action taken as a result of surveillance and the reality that American citizens never consented to the constant surveillance of their personal lives. The position of inclination towards complacency is concisely summed with a strong amount of surveillance being presented by the double edged statement of "If you haven't done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear.".