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Cyber Security: The First Amendment In The United States

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Despite the fact that Germany – the country that gave rise to the Nazi’s reign of terror, has strict laws banning Nazi symbols, incitement of people and hate speech, the First Amendment in the United States protects the right of Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, and other hate groups who express their views openly.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation had kept records on rebellious groups during the first red scare, from 1917 to 1920, when the United States Law enforcement officials arrested many citizens and immigrants for their way of political conduct. In the mid 20th century, the United States witnessed the greatest abuse of constitutional rights as nearly one million intelligence investigators were opened on Americans. The …show more content…

In this regard, support refers to “training”, “expert advice or assistance”, “service”, and “personnel”. The provision of material support has been seen as a violation to the first amendment by many rights groups, as they criminalize activities like the distribution of literature, engaging in political and other community related …show more content…

With the recent rise in Artificial intelligence, the scope for cyber security has increased but so has the scope for cybercriminal activities. The nature of Cybercrime is such that it has no borders. A cybercriminal activity could initiate in Russia, have alliances in Ukraine, use servers in the United Kingdom, and target users in the United States. To make things worse, the disparity in cybercrime laws between countries’ is an added obstacle while conducting investigations. When working on cyber operations and investigations, it is to the disadvantage of respective law enforcement agencies like the police, investigators when they are confined to operate within their own national jurisdiction. In order to reduce the cybercriminals’ scope of crime, the approach should be to enhance international cooperation in matters of cross border investigations and prosecutions. Treaties like the “Convention on Cybercrime” provide law enforcement agencies with the powers to join forces in cyber investigations. Such combined forces help eliminate safe havens for cybercriminals and ensure that a ‘dual criminality’ requirement

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(Weiner 13) The federal government listed almost fifteen hundred Germans in America and about one hundred were quickly put behind bars. Hoover kept an eye on the rest of the Germans because they were seen as potential threats.(Weiner 14) Under the Espionage Act of 1917 the Bureau launched a nationwide surveillance program to find information that could harm America. Anyone caught with this type of information would be put in a cell or sentenced to death. Armed forces and local police competed in the tail chase to catch spies in the United States. Some months later dynamite was being sent to political leaders through the mail.

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This is the essence of Chalmers work in Backfire. Local juries were not convicting Klansmen for their violence against civil rights workers and non-violent protesters, so the federal government felt compelled to step in as negative publicity became national

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Cortland’s Red Scare: Immigration, Radicalism, and Civil Liberties in the Post World War I Period mmlBy Doctor Randi Storch President George W. Bush stated after the 9/11 attacks, “You’re either with us, or you’re with the terrorists.” This declaration of war against terrorism was not a new policy. This radical ideology can be traced back to after World War I. Author of Working Hard for the American Dream, Dr. Randi Storch, offers an illustration that transcends back to the earlier years of what is defined as the “American Century”.

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Two months later, in June 1917, the United States Congress passed and president Woodrow Wilson signed the Espionage Act, which defined espionage during wartime. In May 1918, the Sedition Act was enacted; thus, greatly expanded the meaning of the Espionage Act. This series of law, known collectively as the Espionage and Sedition Acts, restricted some civil liberties and raised great disputes. “Was Wilson right in passing the Espionage and Sedition Acts?” and “To what extent is it acceptable to limit a citizen’s civil liberties during wartime?”

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A now classic example of the atrocities possible when these liberties are lost is Nazi Germany. Joseph Goebbels ' Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda controlled all media, suppressing anti-government information while promoting propaganda. Journalists who crossed the Propaganda Ministry were routinely imprisoned or shot as traitors, and a network of police and spies kept speech, the press, and even movies in

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However, Palmer was losing his credibility by keep warnings of riots, which never took place. Also regarding to the concern of civil liberties, the hysteria finally ended. Posters "Spies Are Listening" and "Destroy this Mad Brute" increased more terrors between the immigrants and the non-immigrants. Sometimes Immigrants would be accused as spies without evidences and forced into prison without trials. German Americans, who lived in America for centuries, were easy to get persecution during the World War 1.

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During the Red Scare, Attorney General Palmer conducted a series of raids against suspected anarchists, deporting 550 Russians and jailing 5,000 in total. The peak of the second Ku Klux Klan came after the film, Birth of a Nation, popularized the barbaric image of the black man. It served as propaganda for fundamentalists to justify their immoral actions in keeping America traditional. Consisting of poor, white, Protestant fundamentalists, the clan targeted people not solely based on race and class, but also religion (Jewish and Catholic). It sought to regain control over political matters and despised the urbanization that much of the

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This proves that the amount of paranoia during this era led to the mass deportations of immigrants and American citizens from false accusations and the building pressure to rid America of Communistic threat. “Late in the afternoon of Friday, January 2, 1920, agents of the U.S. Department of Justice, in a concerted raid on reputedly communist headquarters, began arresting thousands of persons in major cities

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During this period in history, Americans’ civil liberties were being taken away all in securing support for the United States entering and remaining in World War

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The fourth amendment makes it hard for Law enforcement conducting investigations to get information that could be very useful. The apple company gets thousands and thousands of information requests that they are legally not allowed to share,and a large portion of the requests are from people whose devices have been lost or stolen. Additionally, lots of times Apple says no to the information requests, and even once Apple is approved to give personal material they still share a minimal amount of data, however Apple does collect a minimal amount of data. The patriot act allows certain exceptions having to do with terrorists to be made when finding information, and they are very helpful to law enforcement, but only in terroristic situations. Furthermore the amount of information that the Patriot act allows investigators to get for terror crimes just shows how much information we could be getting about horrific criminals that are not yet in jail.

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American Nazism is an ongoing and deeply rooted issue that has persisted before World War Two and the Holocaust. While there are presently hate groups around today, there was one group that garnered a lot of attention during the late 1930s, the German American Bund Foundation. This organization held the attention of Americans and caused a stir over their movements before and during World War Two. The German American Bund Foundation used various forms of media (ads, fliers, movies, etc.) to persuade the public to not join the war and support the Third Reich. By understanding the methods that they used and how the American public reacted to those methods, it is important to remember that they were never successful in any attempt to better

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During WWI, the American government issued the Espionage and Sedition Acts in 1917. These limited the power of the people and were very controversial. Similarly, the Executive Order 9066 that Roosevelt issued in 1942 proclaimed military zones that took away rights. In contrast, the

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The personal liberties of Americans is what gives meaning to being an American. These liberties should be respected and upheld to the greatest efforts possible and should not be abridged by no means less than do process as exemplified by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the American Constitution. However, over time, we have learned about legislation that has been enacted by our government with said efforts to protect the nation. Hence, the Espionage and Sedition Acts, the confinement of Japanese-Americans during the Second World War, the Red Scare post-WWII, and the Pentagon Papers of 1971 are all examples that depict some of the behaviors performed by the federal government that would appear to infringe on these liberties.

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Personal vision about the future of cyberwarfare Cyberwarfare already exists in reality and has been spread out among countries or organizations over the past few decades. The rising technologies including artificial intelligence and computational neural networks used by future computers will not only be significant in a new era of power and communications, but will also broaden the channel for cybercrimes, attacks and warfare. Future cyberwarfare will continue to scale up attacks against governments, corporations and even civilians in the next decade where it will be on par with traditional military and will might surpass these tactics. Future cyberwarfare will not just be targeted against military agencies or other government agencies.

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