In the article “Should TikTok Be Banned” by Scope Magazine, we hear a debate about whether the U.S. government should ban TikTok for all citizens. The social media platform has already been banned for government devices in 30 states; but do these limits go far enough? The United States should implore a federal ban on TikTok because it manipulates millions of people and endangers their privacy. Although most people associate TikTok with fun trends and silly videos, they don't realize the dangers the app poses to society. One of these dangers is the fact that TikTok can control what videos users can receive. This may not seem like a big deal at first, but what people watch significantly impacts their beliefs and opinions, and if people do not …show more content…
and "secretly suppress posts." There is no doubt that what people learn about can change their perspectives, and if a social media platform manipulates the information given to them, how would they feel about world problems? In a world where everyone gets information off of TikTok, a platform where crucial incidents might purposefully be hidden, or where misleading news is broadcast, society is full of mislead and uneducated people. We, as the people, must not allow our views to be altered by manipulative companies. People’s opinions are crucial to themselves and the country, and keeping this app around would only harm society. As can be seen, the United States should implement a federal ban to protect our beliefs and education. Not only are people’s views endangered, but so is their privacy. As humans, privacy is one of the most important things we need and simply cannot be stripped of. When using TikTok, people don’t know that the company is not actually privately owned, and being owned by government officials can harm its users more than people
...rk with us. This can have a major impact on the economy, and may eventually lead to a weakened nation overall. However, it can be argued that the United States is not acting hypocritical through mass surveillance over the internet. While there's some overlap of the issues, the existence of surveillance does not cut off the freedom of speech on the Internet."One can recognize... there is a very large difference between censorship and spying... On some level, we know that spying and espionage is going to take place. This still doesn't mean we promote censorship." (Verveer, 2013) Undoubtedly, the censorship by the agency over the internet may make users think twice about what opinions to express, but as long as no major crimes are being planned, then the agency will not really care about what is said online, and internet users are free to say whatever they would like.
And the problem the social media sites are helping the NSA when we have put all of our trust and that easily it could be revoked. According to Rob D 'Ovido “Having traded our freedoms for a phantom promise of security, government eyes” (D 'Ovido). For example, Cameron Dambrosio, a teenager from Massachusetts posted a video online a rap he made about the Boston marathon bombing, the rap had references to the white house and the bombing itself, which resulted in his getting arrested in May 2013, and charging him with communicating terrorist threats, which could land him a twenty year sentence. One cannot argue that he used foul language, and said words that were ill-mannered, but that does not give the right to officials to arrest people on a basis of rap. What happen with freedom of speech? People out in the middle east are uprooting entire regimes, because they are not giving them the basic human right, like freedom of speech or privacy. For an example, look at Egypt, they have over thrown an regime that ruled for 40 years. I am not comparing those awful regimes to our government, all we need is to calculate our choices more, and the government should have more faith in the citizens. We live in an era where we are being watched by surveillance cameras 24/7, and also having our calls being tapped. Even with all the peeping toms, censorship, and the spying, freedom of speech
The internet is a place where people can freely express their political or other views for people to see. A recent study, Freedom of Net, by the activist group Freedom House shows both the immense censorship of information around the world and the declining freedom of information around the world, “Two-thirds of all internet users, 67 per cent, live in countries where criticism of the government, military, or ruling family are subject to censorship” (APF & Bell). The report by Freedom House digs into the censorship of government criticism, military criticism, and negative views on the ruling family in two thirds of countries studied in the report with governments around the world are silencing the voices of people and their publications. By censoring the people's voices, the governments are able to control the population and their views on not only their own government, but also countries around the world. Governments around the world are stepping up their censorship of public information posted on social media by taking actions to suppress the publications before they even begin. The report by Freedom House shares how police around the world are arresting and punishing those who have taken to social media to complain about a topic that makes the country look bad. The report states: “Social media users face unprecedented penalties, as authorities in 38 countries made
Twitter is an online social networking service that has grown to a global scale. In 2006, it was created for people to be able to share short blurbs of information with each other, and it has done its job quite well. However, like most technologies, there comes consequences, good and bad, that many didn’t intend, or expect, to happen. Twitter has greatly affected the world, and society as a whole, as it affects everything from the news to even how we think.
Book banning is getting out of control so badly, that Florida banned book banning for the most part, and Iowa is reinstating some books and banning other books like books about gays and how to kill off humanity by being gay. Social media is not any better than the book banning, because the social media part is like The Truman Show, whereas the book banning is like Fahrenheit 451. Anyways, in some ways, people who create social media are essentially watching their users, because most times, when an account is created, they’ll ask for an address, first and last name, gender, nationality, ethnicity, birthday, etc., so it’s essentially watching, even if they aren’t. So, people nowadays are way more out of control than they were in times like the Cold War, or
In the article, “Disruptions: More Connected, Yet More Alone,” Charlene DeGuzman states, “It makes me sad that there are moments in our lives where, we’re not present because we’re looking at a phone.”An app is being developed to help people control their time on social media. This app would be a good tool for people who want to limit their time on technology. I think that an app to limit social media use would be an amazing idea. The three reasons I side with this argument are; Some people neglect their friends and family when they’re on social media, People can miss out on life if they’re busy trying to record it, and Many people become addicted to technology.
The Chinese company "ByteDance" created TikTok and might be trying to get info about the US. This is one of the reasons TikTok is dangerous. TikTok is known for its stupidly dangerous challenges that have killed many people. According to The Washington Examiner, a young woman, Grace, had found some disturbing content like racism and people joking about killing orphans. Considering most teens spend 2 hours on TikTok.
Social media is everywhere and very popular all over the world. Social media is used on computers, tablets, smartphones, etc and along with the use of social media there are privacy issues that come along with it. Social media is part of everyone’s life and is hard to give up. Even though we might not think there is isn’t anything wrong with it, there is which comes down to our privacy. Our privacy is being invaded when using these popular networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, etc. Social media is here to communicate with others and build relationships not invade our privacy.
Before you type whatever is on your mind, like a picture, or share a post on either Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, you should know that your “audience” is way bigger than you think. What this means is that it isn’t only people who use social media that can see the things you like, share, or post, but big companies, networks or even the federal government can see all of
The public square is meant to become a free source in which millions of users can share their personal feelings about anything. Unfortunately, businesses and companies just like in Google Books can spread their own money and invest into what other Twitter users are looking into online. Another issue Twitter has is that the rights and the services they provide do not necessarily mean we are always guaranteed what we say is allowed. The fact that we can post whatever we want does not always mean we are always protected by our first amendment. Twitter has rights to ban a user because of hateful speech, their profile, or any reason.
However, government agencies, especially in America, continue to lobby for increased surveillance capabilities, particularly as technologies change and move in the direction of social media. Communications surveillance has extended to Internet and digital communications. law enforcement agencies, like the NSA, have required internet providers and telecommunications companies to monitor users’ traffic. Many of these activities are performed under ambiguous legal basis and remain unknown to the general public, although the media’s recent preoccupation with these surveillance and privacy issues is a setting a trending agenda.
as people should have their privacy when surfing the internet. Alternatively, the evidence suggests that the government can help tackle terrorism and stop bullying. After examining this issue closely, surely society could not argue that we should protect our country and our children by monitoring social networking sites? Works Cited http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/aug/09/cyberbullying-mother-fight-askfm http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/aug/19/ask-fm-cyberbully-hannah-smith-death http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/5046447/Facebook-could-be-monitored-by-the-government.html http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/aug/08/askfm-advertisers-cameron-boycott-cyberbullying http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=catfish
Social Media is a current way in which people are using to interact with one another daily. Since the launch of various Social Networking Sites (SNS) its been a huge attraction in a new way to share information with others and correspond with interests of your choice in many different forms. Although social media sites allow users to share information with friends and other sites on the internet, many people are unaware of how their privacy is getting out. Now that the expansion of global connection through these social media networking sites are so highly present in todays society, giving us easy access to information, the lack of one's privacy is being diminished. Everyday peoples privacy rights are being taken advantage of and the government should therefore implement more laws to avoid violating users. This is affecting countless users online and is a problem because personal information may get out that is not wanted.
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Parascope, Snapchat, and Linkedin are all a part of the huge trend taking over the world. Social media had become big about ten years ago and keeps growing. Social media is not in just one or two countries yet it is worldwide; people in almost all countries are liking statuses and posting updates and pictures. It was indicated that 73% of adults online, 73% of teens online, and 72% of young adults online use some sort of social media (Fleck and Johnson-Migalski 135). With social media came many positive and negative effects. People worldwide are addicted to it, spending hours upon hours on the Internet reading about what other people are doing. The United Nations has declared access to the internet to be
The use of social media has risen exponentially in the past decade, and with it the impact of its ubiquity has become evident. Although social media can undoubtedly be a positive vehicle for self expression and social interaction, it is largely restrictive of personal liberty and subsequently does more harm than good. Though this applies primarily to the individual, the negative effects of social media on personal freedom extends to interpersonal relationships and can therefore negatively affect groups as well. The convergence of audiences and associated privacy concerns on social media sites like Facebook can result in self-censorship, while the inbuilt filtering systems create a sense of censorship. Data collection and surveillance make it