Privacy, free speech, and decency; discuss

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Due: Sunday, End of Module by 11:55 p.m. EST

Privacy, free speech, and decency; discuss the following:

Should there be limits on Web content? Consider sites that might display pornography, child abuse, suicide, or the assassination of a political leader. Does it make a difference if the offensive images are shown as animation?

Does this type of programming validate the need for common code of ethics for programmers?

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Communications-Decency-Act

https://cyber.harvard.edu/ilaw/Speech/

https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230

https://ethics.csc.ncsu.edu/speech/freedom/porn/study.php

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  • The Essay must be 5 pages long. Double Space
  • Must have an introduction with a clear thesis statement, a body discussing the three main points and a conclusion
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Running head: PRIVACY, FREE SPEECH, AND DECENCY

Privacy, Free Speech, and Decency
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PRIVACY, FREE SPEECH, AND DECENCY

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The internet has increasingly become an integral medium of exercising the freedom of
expression and opinion. The internet enhances wide sharing of information and communications
across the globe with every corner of the world is connected and accessible to the internet.
Various components of the internet including social media and websites have become critical
media for information sharing and communication, with any information from any life
dimension being posted, shared and retrievable by internet users. The fact that the freedom of
expression and speech universal has facilitated the use of the internet by people to freely express
their opinions on anything, including political and social aspects of life. Unfortunately, the
content of information shared through social media and websites has been difficult to control or
regulate regarding who is allowed to access the information and who is not, considering that
even children and minors have access to internet sources through improved telecommunication.
Internet sources including websites and social media have increasingly continued to misuse the
speech, expression and opinion freedoms, which has raised fresh concerns about the social, and
also political morals in the current generations. This essay discusses privacy, free speech, and
decency about internet websites that display activities considered as immoral in the society,
including pornography, suicide, child abuse and political assassination. These are considered to
be factors propagating immorality. Hence the essay reviews the differences created when these
offensive images are displayed as an animation. The essay also discusses the need for a standard
code of ethics to guide the scope of programming.
In order to avoid/control the adverse social impacts of the internet, there should be some
legal limits on the web content, as well as other internet sources of expressing free speech and
privacy. There have been previous ...

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