Edward Snowden, Net Neutrality, and the Risk of our Personal Privacy: Who?

Net neutrality, surveillance, and internet privacy are, frankly, scary subjects. They are things that are simply easier not to talk about. They get messy. They run around in circles until you think that…

Thin Thread

The new millennium generation is under the impression that we have it made but could we be wrong? We are wrapped up in our iPhone, iPad on varies social media form that we lack awareness as to what is really happening in front of our faces. We are being continually misled and manipulated by the things we…

NSA: A One Way Mirror

“I remember what the internet was like before it was being watched and there was never been anything in the history of man that’s like it. I mean, you could have children from one part of the world having an equal discussion where, you know, they were sort of granted, um, the same kind of…

A Response Paper on “Why Everyone Was Wrong About Net Neutrality” By Tim Wu

Name: Othman Alageel

Course: COMM200

Professor: Meghan Dougherty

A Response Paper on “Why Everyone Was Wrong About Net Neutrality”

Privacy and Date Surveillance

I finally did it! I finally saw Citizenfour after receiving several recommendations from my peers and professor. For a foreign/international student like me who have zero knowledge on the states’ politics and current affairs, the name Edward Snowden was really new to me, so…

Privacy: An Almost Archaic Idea

The idea of having privacy has completely changed as media and the Internet have evolved. I would argue…

Net Neutrality

The Internet is a very amazing, interesting, and beneficial piece of technology. Like myself, most people now a days can’t go a day without it. Whether it is for homework, checking email, playing games, watching, streaming, downloading videos and more, we rely so heavily on the Internet on a…

In cold truth, Citizenfour depicts our government and the true reality of the world we live in. Edward Snowden was a whistleblower to the United States. What people may assume about his fate can only show how America refuses to accept a true hero. By isolating out of the country goes to show that one man will suffer for the sake of the rest of his…

A Response Essay to Week Four’s Net Neutrality Readings

Net Neutrality seems to be a pressing issue for over a decade and those in favor of a free and open internet are jumping for joy because of the Federal Communications Commission’s decision protect user’s rights to such. In “A Historic Decision”: Tim Wu, Father of Net…

Privacy and Surveillance Reading Response

The reading response I am going to do is mainly based on the movie Citizen four, the documentary United States of Secrets and the podcast How to protect your Data Online.

Citizenfour humanizing Snowden

Citizenfour maybe the most important and timely film of our time. Poitras delivers a suspenseful and at times poignant work that is well deserving of an Oscar. The documentary shows Poitra’s keen eye for capturing every expression and nervous fidget humanizing Snowden. She…

Citizenfour Reading Response

Lauren Poitras’ Citizenfour tells us how Ed Snowden reached out to her and Glenn Greenwald to help him release his story to the public. Poitras’ documentary is eerie and does a great job of capturing the fear and isolation that surrounds Ed Snowden since sharing the NSA’s top…

Ed Snowden vs NSA

Prior to taking this class, I did not know anything about Edward Snowden, the NSA, or the government’s surveillance on every citizen’s move. I never quite had any interest in politics or international news, so I don’t pay a lot of attention to it. After watching a bundle of videos regarding net…