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THe US government reiterates the importance of freedom of expression as well as the freedom of internet through the Twitter censor policy. While many see it as a bad move, many also see it as a good move to help make freedom of expression fair for all users. Until the policy takes effect, the government cannot see how it works, and decide how to take action, if at all.

This is a recent law in the Uk which bans a freedom that we have in the USA which also maybe leaving us soon. The freedom of internet and file sharing.

In this article shows the fight between internet security and internet freedom. It shows how much security we get when it comes to our internet freedom.

This web page is about rioting over people's personal freedoms being abused. Britain is trying to limit violent talks over the internet.

Republicans and Democrats made a free and open Internet part of their party's 2012 platform.

A worker got fired from her job after posting a comment on Facebook. NLRB ruled that this woman rights were violated because there are federal laws that protect employees rights to discuss their workplace problems. Now there are new ruling that apply workers rights to online discussions to ensure employees freedom.

This site tries to defend are internet rights in relation to other personal rights like freedom of speech, press, and religion. This is also trying to stop the censorship issue against the internet.

This website shows a very good side of why the government should keep away from limiting the personal freedoms in the internet. Also, goes a little into online gambling

Some believe that parents should take control what happen in their families. Those same parents wants the government to handle what happen with other and their lifestyles. The government is trying to decide how to control how a person gambles with or without the interenet. Who are we to tell someone when to gamble and how often to gamble. The internet is a freedom to do what we want to do in it. Each familiy should not be told what to search or what game to play when using the internet.

It discusses internet gambling and how is a personal freedom. This article makes a good point on how this topic to be left to the people wether they want to gamble or not. In the other end of the topic are the people that are totally against it.

SOPA and CISPA are congressional bills that are keeping the Internet from being free and open. After several protest against the bills democrats are rethinking there argument and changing there minds.

An article celebrating the defeat of SOPA and explaining why it is so important. SOPA assumes everyone is guilty instead of innocent until proven guilty.

This artcile brings up a very good point. Americans are responsible for their own ways and actions, especially on the internet. It also discusses that congress wants people to see both sides of the issue.

The article in the New York Times is about the censorship and the power the government has over what the people can type and say over any device. People can't even search the english word freedom in China on google. Since the events in Northern Africa and the Middle East it has tightened its filters and bans even more.

Brazil is about to be the first country to pass a internet bill of rights. Such rights include there privacy being protected and freedom to browse what they want.

This article explains how the balancing of personal freedoms works into the government and the workplace of citizens today. A big example this article touches on is how online activity can be monitored. What is really private today?

Technology is advancing faster and faster every minute and privacy is something known of the past now in my opinion. One of my teachers told the class that everything you learn about computers during your freshman and sophomore years of college will most likely be outdated by your junior year - just to help realize how fast technology is actually growing. Anything online can affect you now-a-days it seems. On the news the other day, there was a story about Facebook Friends and your credit. People are actually being denied car loans or things of that sort because of the friends they have on Facebook because if their friends seem unreliable and have bad scores, then the company will assume you do too. It's getting ridiculous to be honest.

These days employers monitor and know everything you are doing. Knowing this, I feel like if you are acting in a way that is respectable both at work and in your personal life, you will have nothing to worry about. I do not see this issue of lack of privacy changing, I see it increasing as time goes on.

This guy has some interesting ideas. Ending the war on drugs by legalizing drugs and taxing them for profit and allowing people to consume or not consume anything they choose seems a bit extreme. I do agree that a rebalance of taxes would benefit the hard working middle class families.

A really good article with a lot of good ideas. I especially liked the idea about fixing the infrastructure. I saw a special a few years ago talking about how the infrastructure was deteriorating and I can only imagine it's gotten worse.

Although we have the freedom to make choices on a daily basis, I don't think people realize how much the media influences those choices. Can we really call it a "personal freedom" when so many of our choices are based on what we see on tv or the internet? This article touches on how the media, from commercials to porn, influence the decisions we make day to day. We can learn a lot from what we see, hear or read from the media but when is it too much?

Is it important to us that our government looks at our Metadata? The government work's hard to Prove that our privacy is safe however they take liberties when it comes to private Phone Communications. The information they gather is much larger then we think.

If they "need" to look at our metadata it makes me wonder what they're doing with all our information.

In this day and age this is to be expected, the government is all about control, and when it comes to phone calls or even the internet they will do their best to control these places. Not siding with the government Im just stating their poor reasonings for doing this.

Points and counterpoints arguing for and against censorship of the Internet.

How the Trade Agreement can effect you. Not does it only censor the internet but also food medication tv, file-sharing. Websites would be in charge of censoring their own site.