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"A government can be described as a group within a society with the authority to develop and enforce laws and to manage resulting disputes. The authority of the government comes from the consent of the people, promoting agreed upon goals which benefit individuals within the given society. The Constitution of the United States, written in 1787, provides a basis for understanding the fundamental ideas underlying a government and evaluating its actions. As time has progressed, the Constitution has been used to evaluate various issues, internet content being one of them. Ultimately, the government at either the federal, state, or local level should have the duty to monitor internet content used by the American people as long as they are not hindering …show more content…

Most significantly, Edward Snowden, who worked for the National Security Agency, released top secret documents confirming this theory. Snowden believes the NSA’s tracking of Americans will only get worse in the future; this is a danger to our democracy. The U.S. Department of Justice has accused Snowden of “theft of government property, unauthorized communication of national defense information and willful communication of classified communications...to an unauthorized person” (Finn, 2013). Although Snowden will go down in history as one of America 's most consequential whistleblowers, he sacrificed everything because he did not want to allow the government to destroy internet freedom and Americans’ basic …show more content…

Each day, issues of security arise over the internet, especially among teenagers and children. In the late 1990s, the government became aware of the growing need to protect privacy online. The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 was the first law of its kind. The law protects the privacy of minors by legislating that online entities will not obtain a child’s personal information without parental consent. In addition, some federal legislation was developed to protect children while online. “The Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2001 which protects minors who access the Internet in schools and libraries ensures that websites block obscene and harmful content.” and “The Protect Our Children Act of 2008 regards the online safety of minors and protects them from cyber enticement and child pornography” (Butler,

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In the document “Hero or Traitor? Edward Snowden and the NSA Spying Program”, Edward Snowden, exposed various types of spying programs. He exposed these programs because they were invading the people’s privacy and he felt that it was important for the people to know. On June 5, 2013, the very first report, a newspaper from London called The Guardian, reported that the United States National Security Agency (NSA) was collecting telephone records from millions of U.S. customers of telecommunications company Verizon.

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He revealed that the American government’s mass electronic surveillance program was occurring without anyone aware of it and without public debate over its value. Since then, there have been much needed changes, but there is still more than needs to occur. In short, much of what occurs in the process of mass surveillance brings the community more harm than good and is clearly unconstitutional.   Based upon information provided by Edward Snowden in 2013, an article from The Guardian suggested that the NSA monitored three billion

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According to NSA pursuant to EO 12333 they are authorized to collect, retains, analyze, produce, and disseminate signals intelligence information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes to support national and department missions, and to support for the conduct of military. In other word NSA collects communications and information of people outside and inside the country of US. But according to Edward Snowden who is the world’s famous whistleblower of NSA and the one who used to work in CIA and NSA as a contractor before he revealed the top secret of American spy agencies and other allies that the legal process that we expected and we had become accustomed to what constitution being told was a lie and all the process, regulations and procedures that they do in reality what NSA is doing is violating not only the law as written but likely the constitution. Snowden is concerned to the people and other governments help by big internet companies are moving towards collecting all information, making a permanent record of people and recording the whole daily lives. Everything that you are doing online was capturing by this spy agencies stealing privacy of people and Snowden believe

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