The USA Patriot Act, also known as "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism" was a rushed act passed 45 days after the devastating terrorist attack on the twin towers September 11th, 2001. It was composed with the intention of finding and prosecuting international terrorists on American soil, but consequently violated the constitution. In addition, the Patriot act allows surveillance on all emails, internet, and cell phones to try and catch terrorists. Regardless, the act ended up having more power than primarily planned as stated in the CNN debate on the patriot act. America was founded on the principle of individual liberties and the pursuit of happiness in the context
Citation: Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition 535 U.S. 234 (2002) U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Facts: The Free Speech Coalition which is a non-profit trade association of the pornography and adult entertainment industry in the United States filed suit, against the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996 (CPPA). The child pornography prevention act prohibits and sets penalties for activities such as depicting any visual image of the sexual abuse of minors. This includes pictures, video, and even modified images with the likeness or appearance of a minor engaging in a sexual act. The Promotion, advertisement, and distribution of such works are also prohibited and have consequences.
The HITECH Act is a big portion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that promotes the widespread adoption of electronic health records/health information technology. It was passed because of the aforementioned and it provided benefits to patients/providers alike. The ARRA itself (which, of course includes the HITECH Act) was in response to the economic crisis of 2007-2009. The HITECH Act was ultimately designed to improve safety, quality, and efficiency. By responding to the Act's incentives, healthcare organizations can have patients discharged quicker because having information through technology is quicker and easier to maintain than paper-based, there would be improved clinical outcomes, as patient quality would improve, and medical
Supporters of the Act believe the Act is necessary because it has provided protection to Indian children and their families. The ICWA has been an important piece of legislation because it sought to rectify historical injustices the Native Americans encountered. There was a lack of knowledge about the American Indians’ customs and mores and for many, they believed the American way of doings things were far more superior (Cross, 2014). Opponents, on the other hand, argue that the Indian Child Welfare Act is flawed and should be changed or abolished completely. They believe the Act has not protected the Indian youth’s interests, but has instead caused more problems and trauma for the youth.
After watching the video about Virginias plan to turnover their mental institution to a financial corporation resulting in sex offenders being held until further notice under state regulations, in my opinion, the plan would definitely be a horrible idea due to the lives of inmates being tossed to the side for a few bucks causing many questions to arise. For instance, the civil commitment law which is regulated in many states to say that even if a sexual offender serves his/her time, the government can force the inmate to stay longer in the facility. The issue with this law is that corporations are making money off of inmates that already paid their debt to society and now are forced to remain in these facilities. According to Cenk Uygur (2012),
At point in the United States, everyone had their day in court. They were innocent until proven guilty and their rights to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and the United States Constitution were honored. Then it all changed. On the morning of September 11, 2001, The United States was attacked in New York and Washington D.C. where over 3,000 innocent Americans died at the hands of terrorists who preached a message of death to the west. It was then that the United States collectively agreed to send troops into the Middle East and engage in what would be known as the longest have been more numerous throughout the world.
In 1994, the United States Congress passed a controversial crime bill that aimed to address rising crime rates by implementing harsher punishments and increasing funding for law enforcement. This legislation had far-reaching implications for communities across the country, sparking debates about the effectiveness of tough-on-crime policies and their impact on discredited populations. The 1994 crime bill was a landmark piece of legislation that sought to address the growing concerns about crime in the United States by implementing stricter sentencing guidelines and allocating more resources for law enforcement. However, critics argue that the bill disproportionately targeted minority communities and led to a surge in mass incarceration. The debate surrounding the bill continues to this day, with advocates citing its role in reducing crime rates, while opponents point to its negative impact on communities of color.
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allows U.S. intelligence agencies to acquire foreign intelligence information by monitoring foreign persons in the USA and abroad. This act ensures that intelligence agencies can respond in time to terminate a security threat. The most important part of this act, the Section 702 forbids deliberate monitoring of US citizens and their communication. Technically NSA has been violating this act ever since it has been enacted in 2008 because, as we know, they have been monitoring all US citizenry.
Free Speech Coalition, the Supreme Court gave the First Amendment protection to computer – generated or virtual child pornography. Yet, the previous decision in Ferber v. New York virtual pornography is banned. It is considered “real” child pornography. The government held this decision to protect the interest of children. The most serious crime against children is sexual abuse.
It seems the initial purpose of CIPA was to prevent minors from accessing pornography in libraries; this is fine, as I am sure that no librarian wants to try to advocate for the right to provide minors access to pornography. However, the act also stated that the filters were to help protect minors from accessing content, other than pornography, that is considered harmful to them. This is where the situation gets complicated; it appears that the federal government is requiring us to choose between funding and violating the first amendment right of our patrons. By censoring the internet content our minor patrons are allowed to access we are placing more importance on funding than on our patrons and their
The Supreme Court has been entrusted with the task of interpreting the Constitution of the United States. In the First Amendment of the Constitution, freedom of speech serves as the foundational liberty which is the cornerstone to the practice of democracy. Commencing at the early part of the twentieth century cases such as Schenck v. United States, Debs v. United States, Abrams v United States, Whitney v. California, and Dennis v. United States, paved the way for the Court to set the legal standard for defining protected and unprotected speech. Nonetheless, the Court has struggled to interpret said boundaries property and has failed to protect speech in some of the above cases. This essay will analyze two different scenarios where the Court
The Child Online Protection Act[1] (COPA)[2] was a law in the United States of America, passed in 1998 with the declared purpose of restricting access by minors to any material defined as harmful to such minors on the Internet. The law, however, never took effect, as three separate rounds of litigation led to a permanent injunction against the law in 2009. The law was part of a series of efforts by US lawmakers legislating over Internet pornography. Parts of the earlier and much broader Communications Decency Act had been struck down as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1997 (Reno v. ACLU); COPA was a direct response to that decision, narrowing the range of material covered.
1(a) The Communications Decency Act (CDA) was the first of its kind measure taken by the United States to control pornographic material over the internet. Before this act, indecency over TV and Broadcasting was already controlled by the Federal Communications Commissions of CDA. According to this act, the Federal Communications Commission of CDA reserved a right to control the material going on the internet as well as the members who post any indecent material. This was indeed a first measure towards the internet and one of the most basic and needed ones.
Refugees are people suffering from conflict and war and seeking to escape from their misery. They are innocent and don’t want the war to continue. The only way they can escape is through immigration. Furthermore, refugees lose their valuable home, their origin and decide to flee for safety. Every country can pass through such crisis even the U.S.; consequently, foreign countries should act as a unified world since it is an international affair.
The FBI ran a child pornsite to catch child predators and the predators call foul. Federal prosecutors are defending the FBI decision to Hijack and Peddle Child porn for two week as part of a sting operation to catch the distributors as well as the child predators who make it. Andrew Crocker staff attorney of EFF otherwise known as the Electronic Frontier Foundation thinks that the government abused its power all because they got a single warrant to hack into any computer that was visiting these child porn websites with any kind of limitations. The website they ran from Feb 20 to March 14 2015 was called playpen one of the biggest child porn and trafficking websites in the dark web which can be easily accessed with the help of torrent or
