Blog Post #3

On the Eight Values of Free Expression, the one that resonates with me the most would be the sixth option Promote Tolerance — see Lee Bollinger, The Tolerant Society: Freedom of Speech and Extremist Speech. This one resonates with me the most because it is about Freedom of Speech. Freedom of speech is a right granted to every American citizen under the first amendment. It allows any person or group to express their thoughts, ideas, feelings, or beliefs that no one is allowed to take away from them. The First Amendment protects any type of speech whether that is positive speech or hateful speech that is why it is called freedom of speech. Having to hear hateful speech helps us to become more mature and tolerant within our own society which is a good thing. Hate speech can spread positive learning as well such as teaching others and especially young people the difference between good and bad and steering them on the right path. I believe it is good to see both sides of things. That way you get all of the knowledge and having the freedom of speech in our country allows that to happen. With the  Eight Values of Free Expression the one that feels most important to me is number two, Participation in Self-Government — see Alexander Meiklejohn, Free Speech and Its Relation to Self-Government. I feel that voting is of most importance in today's society. With voting and each opponent it is vital for each candidate to be able to express what they want to achieve, strive for, and offer to the table so the voters have all the availability to choose their preferred candidate with all the information. To have a fair and right election, we want each voter to be informed with each side fairly. With recent and past elections there has been a debate with fairness and legitimacy. The idea is to stop that conspiracy so that each person has a fair election and vote. On the Eight Values of Free Expression, number four, Individual Self-Fulfillment ( aka Self-Actualization) — see C. Edwin Baker, Human Liberty and Freedom of Speech, feels most personal to myself. It is about free speech with an individual's personal self. Free speech deals with a person's own self, identity, and what they believe. That is very important to me and feels most personal to me. I feel that because it is important for any person to be able to express themselves the way they want. Whether that be that way the dress, what kind of music they listen to, religion, and to be able to have the ability to express virtually what they believe. Something that I see in action today is number 5, Check on Governmental Power (aka Watchdog Role) — see Vince Blasi, Checking Function of the First Amendment. This is about government power and abuse. Some examples of that include Watergate, Irangate, and Clintongate. Recently the FBI invaded former President Donald Trump's home. The raid on his home was due to classified information. The government and FBI went through his house and documents to look for wrong doings while he was in power. 

 

Blog Post #5

In Main Stream news and media, even though it may be relevant and true, it is censored in a way. Take ABC News for example, you might find similar topics in articles, news clips, or stories as to what is on https://www.antiwar.com but it is not quite how that website is explained and sorted out. On Antiwar they have a bunch of different countries and under each of those countries there is links to articles about what current news is going on. This gives a variety of new news sources to look at and stories about topics we may have even heard about in our daily news that we receive everyday. I feel this could be a sense of censorship because it is hidden and not popular to the public eye for everyone to see and read. The other website https://www.theamericanconservative.com I have never seen or heard of earlier. By browsing through their page I can see that it isn't like any ordinary news source. It makes me wonder as to why I haven't seen or heard of it and who is censoring this type of news.

Blog Post #9

The Sherman AntiTrust Act was founded and passed in 1890. The Sherman AntiTrust Act authorized the federal government to institute proceedings against trusts in order to dissolve them. The purpose of The Sherman AntiTrust Act was to promote economic fairness and competitiveness to regulate interstate commerce. The Sherman AntiTrust Act I believe had some valid ideas and points but it didn’t last all too long. The Sherman AntiTrust Act was named for senator John Sherman of Ohio. John Sherman was the chairman of the Senate financial committee and secretary of the treasury under President Hayes. After a decade the Sherman AntiTrust Act was invoked. The Sherman AntiTrust Act was unsuccessful because of the narrow judicial interpretations of what constitutes trade or commerce for all of the states. The Sherman AntiTrust Act outlawed "every contract, combination, or conspiracy in restraint of trade," as well as "monopolization, attempted monopolization, or conspiracy or combination to monopolize”. Before it was outlawed the Supreme Court said that The Sherman AntiTrust Act can’t prohibit every trade that is being made. The Sherman AntiTrust Act was made to help smaller businesses and the working class. I think this is one of the greater purposes of The Sherman AntiTrust Act made. The Sherman AntiTrust Act was amended by the Clayton Antitrust Act in 1914. The Clayton Antitrust Act addressed specific practices that The Sherman AntiTrust Act did not ban. At the time when The Sherman AntiTrust Act was first founded and passed, many people were very upset with large corporations like Standard Oil or American Railway Union. These two large corporations were seen as unfairly monopolizing certain industries. A lot of people saw and felt like they were hit with high prices with essential goods. Competitors felt shut out by large corporations to keep other enterprises out of the market. After this started happening, a big shift occurred in American business and marketing. Big business arose in the early 19th century. Some American lawmakers thought the right idea was to regulate business practices more strictly. This is where The Sherman AntiTrust Act comes in. The Sherman AntiTrust Act created new laws and ideas such as the Clayton Act. The Clayton Act came out in 1914 and its objective was to prevent unfair methods of competition in the business world. It banned price discrimination and anti-competeitive merges. The Clayton Act declared strikes, boycotts, and labor unions legal under the federal law. This became widespread and a lot of support until lawmakers wanted to keep the market economy competitive while business is changing. Here are some interesting facts about The Sherman AntiTrust Act. If you violated the Act you could serve a hefty punishment of 10 years prison time as well as paying a fine up to a million dollars for an individual person and 100 million for a corporation. There have been a few of today's companies who have been accused of violating The Sherman AntiTrust Act. Some of these companies including Google, Microsoft, and Apple have all received complaints. The Sherman AntiTrust Act and The Clayton Act both remain in force in America. 

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sherman-antiturst-act.asp

Blog Post #7

 The present technology has spread because as it advances we advance with it. I feel that some of the later generation adapts slower or not at all to new or upcoming technology because of their beliefs and maybe because things are advancing to past. For example not matter how many times I try to explain what snapchat is to my mom and how it works, she will never fully get it or understand how to use it. She has Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and even Tiktok and she completely understands all of it but I think to myself why can't she ever figure out Snapchat. I believe this could be maybe it's just a confusing technology that she doesn't get because so many new social media apps came to us so quickly. The younger generation adapts and develops faster than the older generation because they have not known anything else. For example my generation, when I was born there was cell phones and way more technology then when my parents were born so I think having some sense of growing up with technology and watching it advance makes it easier for say my generation to adapt to it. I believe there are positives and negatives to new technology especially social media. I feel some of these apps are nice to have but you don't necessarily need them. For instance I think Tiktok is a fun social media app where you can be creative and I get a lot of laughs from. Then there's Instagram where I don't normally go on everyday and don't post all too often. On Instagram people also like to edit themselves too much especially celebrities who set a false body image to many girls. 

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Blog Post #11

 

In group 3, one of the presenters did her presentation on the Gatekeeping Theory. I found her presentation to be very insightful and interesting. The definition of Gatekeeping Theory is selecting and then filtering items of media that can be consumed with time or space that an individual happens to have. I have heard of the name Gatekeeping Theory but never have learned up until the presentation what it truly meant. I found it to be very a very interesting theory. 

Blog Post #8

 

The first Ted Talk 'Your Life Online, Permanent As A Tattoo' from Juan Rodriquez had a close to home feeling for me while listening to his Ted Talk. I think about what he says in the video all the time. Everything you do in life can be tracked and found from the internet and even just being on surveillance camera. It is very scary to think about and makes me feel a little worried for our future. I feel that there is a lack of privacy that people in the 1900s were granted before all of this new technology has came out. I feel that there needs to be some sort of protection and privacy law passed so this can't happen anymore. The second Ted Talk shocked me the most out of all of them. It is scary that local police departments are able to get information about us. The license plate scanner is one of the more terrifying things to me. Police are able to scan everyones licenses plates even if you have never done one thing bad in your life and are able to track where you go and what you do. I feel like this gives no one a sense of safety and makes people feel more afraid. It is a lack of privacy and there needs to be something done about it so that it cannot happen anymore. 

Blog Post #6

 

In class during presentations I learned about YouTube. One of my peers had a presentation and talked about YouTube. Yes I do know what YouTube is and I use it and have been using it since it came out yet I learned more about it. I learned when it came out, the advances it has made, and how it has impacted on the future of technology. 

Blog Post #4

The EOTO that I decided to research on was the first camera phone. It was called Kyocera Phone VP- 210. It was developed in Japan in May of 1999. When the phone was released it was called the first mobile video phone. The phone's camera faced the front of the phone (selfie). The phone has 110,000 pixels on it. This phone was only able to take up to twenty pictures until the storage would become full. Though you were able to save or delete pictures of your choosing. The  Kyocera Phone VP- 210 had its own built- in stand. This made taking pictures of oneself or others much easier. I think this was actually a very smart feature on this phone because it was multi purposeful. You could use the stand for when you can’t hold your phone during a phone call or if you need to use the phone's camera as a mirror. When the Kyocera Phone VP- 210 came out in 1999 the price was listed for $325 and if it came out today it would cost $520. The invention of the first camera phone has had a huge part on the evaluation of phones but not only that yet technology as a whole as well. The first cell phone came out 16 years prior in 1983. It developed from a big chunky phone to something so little you can carry it around in your pocket. The cell phone evolution took off after the Kyocera Phone VP- 210 was created and released. Only 8 years later in 2007 the first IPhone made by Apple was invented and hit the markets, which is a faster evolution then 16 years from when the first cell phone was invented. The Kyocera Phone VP- 210 set technology as a whole into a new beginning. From computers, to laptops, phones, IPods, earbuds, anything you can think of really. After the phone came out technology as a whole was changed forever. I think this invention was a good thing but also you can look at certain things it created as not so good. Some good aspects are for one new advances in our society and growing further into the future. The idea of putting a camera on a phone has led to so many ideas in our current day. Some of those ideas are apps we now have downloaded on our phones. For example snapchat, instagram, tiktok, twitter, and facebook. These are all social media apps that are used by our smartphones. They all mostly require camera access because they are photo/ video based apps. Even though the Kyocera Phone VP- 210 didn’t create these apps, it opened a door for possibilities in the future. Now on our current smartphones we are able to take pictures, videos, time lapses and much more due to the Kyocera Phone VP- 210. Some of the down sides I think it created also dealt with social media. If you look back in the 2000s when teenages and young adults had phones it was flip phones and the pictures they took never went onto a social media page. Nowadays young people even younger than teenage years are using social media to compare themselves to people who have used photoshop and have set unrealistic body images which I find sad and disturbing. I believe there are pros and cons to both sides of the first camera phone coming out. 

 https://kimon.hosting.nyu.edu/physical-electrical-digital/items/show/1518