CS 306 Computers in Society - Fall 2009

Instructor: Jacques Chansavang

Week_5: Calendar

Monday, Septmber 21st - Sunday, September 27th, 2009

Current_Events: Due weekly on Monday (in class for Hardcopy) or submit through Blackboard Vista by 11:59 P.M. Late assignment will be penalized or no longer accepted.

Research papers Due: (1). Topic, (2). Sources and (3). Outlines at Midnight, 11:59 PM, Sunday!

Here is a sample!

Text Book Gift of Fire:

Read Chapter 3: Freedom of Speech, Pages 143 - 188.

PowerPoint_Presentation

Chapter 3 Freedom of Speech
3.1 Changing Communications Paradigms
3.1.1 Regulating Communications Media
3.1.2 Free-Speech Principles
3.2 Controlling Offensive Speech
3.2.1 Offensive Speech: What Is It? What Is Illegal?
3.2.2 Internet Censorship Laws and Alternatives
3.2.3 Spam
3.2.4 Challenging Old Regulatory Paradigms and Special Interests
3.2.5 Posting and Selling Sensitive Material: Ethics and Social Concerns
3.3 Censorship on the Global Net
3.3.1 The Global Impact of Censorship
3.3.2 Yahoo and French Censorship
3.3.3 Censorship in Other Nations
3.3.4 Aiding Foreign Censors
3.4 Political Campaign Regulations in Cyberspace
3.5 Anonymity
3.5.1 Common Sense and the Internet
3.5.2 Is Anonymity Protected?
3.5.3 Against Anonymity
3.6 Protecting Access and Innovation: Net Neutrality or Deregulation?

 

Text Book Computer in Society:

Read Unit 3: Work and Workplace - I will assign to the Group_Discussion!

Key Terms: Reading and Digging Deeper

Chapter 3 - Freedom of Speech

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Regulatory Paradigms
            - We can “publish” whatever we wish and be read by anyone who chooses
            - Don’t need approval from anyone to speak your mind
            - might guarantee freedom but guarantee is not certain
First Amendment should be applied to each new communications technology according to its spirit and intention:  to protect our freedom to say what we wish

Communication technologies were divided into three categories with respect to the degree of First Amendment protection and government regulation:

• Print media (Newspapers, books, magazines pamphlets
• Broadcast (television and radio)
• Common carriers (telephone, telegraph and the postal system)

    Broadcasting licensees are select by the government and must meet government standards of merit,
    a requirement that would not be tolerated for publishers because of the obvious threat to freedom of
    expression.
            - sexually oriented talk shows or to sensor them
            - the government has more control over television and radio content before the Bill of Right
              was written.
   The first Amendment is a restriction on the power of government, not individual or private
   businesses.
            - Publishers are not required to publish material they consider offensive, poorly written etc..
            - Rejection or editing by a publisher is not violation of a writer’s First Amendment rights.