Should The Government Monitor Internet Activity?

"The Internet Is a Surveillance State" is an article written by Bruce Schneier and first appeared on cnn.com in March of 2013. In this article, Schneier attempts to validate the idea that big companies and the government utilize the internet to accumulate information on the general public. Schneier provides the reader with hard evidence and supporting details throughout the article to confirm his claim. The purpose of this essay is to analyze the claim, along with the evidence and supporting details, Schneier offers in his article. Furthermore, this essay will determine if Bruce Schneier was able to make an effective argument based on the information he presents to the readers.

Imagine that every search, post, ping, or tweet was tracked by a big corporation or even the government. This is a scary though but in reality, the search history of the American people is a high commodity for big business and the government alike. The purpose of this essay will be to examine the article titled “The Internet is a Surveillance State” by Bruce Schneier. This essay will examine Schneier’s credibility towards the source, the importance of when the article was written, and the ideals Schneier had towards the topic of internet surveillance.

"Most people in America use the internet, and when they use it they should expect to be free to search and post what they want; that is except unless they're intentionally posting or viewing something that is against the law. It's been a theory for some time that the government can view the American peoples' internet searches and browsing history, but are they and should they be doing it at all? Like in the earlier stages of our country, we will and most likely continue to have conflict with our government about certain issues, but the internet and things concerning it seems to be one of the major issues right now.

Abdo, Alexander, and Patrick Toomey. "The NSA is turning the internet into a total surveillance system." Theguardian.com. 11 Aug. 2013. Guardian News and Media. 25 Feb. 2014 .

It’s a bright Sunday morning; the birds are chirping, the smell of fresh coffee is in the air and you turn on the tv; “Another Leak Of All Verizon Users Personal Information Out On The Web” is today's headline on the news. In our society right now; the government has the utmost power; yet they might not be using their powers in ways you’d expect. If you're a daily electronic users at Urbandale High School who spends at least 30 hours a week using online functions for entertainment or work; then you might not have heard or seen what the government's been doing recently. In an in depth analysis shows that our life we’re living right now could be seen as a dystopian universe over 50 years ago. Yet as our nation advances, its being advanced in

This paper will cover the pros and cons of government surveillance. It will cover different views on the issue such as ethical, social, and global impact. This paper will try to answer the question of how government surveillance on social media can impact local citizens in the United States

This course has been about making good arguments and evaluating their effectiveness. The debate on the government’s role in regulating the internet is filled with many different opinions and viewpoints. I will need the knowledge I have gained in this course to sort through these claims, and create my own arguments. The title of Chapter 27 in “Everything’s an Argument” is “How Has the Internet Changed the Meaning of Privacy?” The chapter discusses many parts of the internet and privacy, including government surveillance. My topic goes further than just government surveillance: should the government actually regulate information from the internet? The internet has become an integral part of our society, and many of us will use it

"The U.S. government, founded on the constitution and The Bill Of Rights. The Bill of Rights guarantees individual rights to all citizens that cannot be taken away, and those include the rights of life, liberty and property. The Bill of Rights was founded on the principles of government, and with those principles we made sure that all citizens were given equal rights and we had a strong government. In the fourth amendment it says that officers of the law must get a warrant from a judge to search and take property or persons. The government has the extent to make the internet a safe place for information, but they don’t have the right to without that information without the peoples say.

The Internet powers our country. Not only do hundreds of millions of Americans use it daily, our government and states use it to do important national and international business. Our government already utilizes it to monitor the activity of its people. This monitoring has especially risen after events such as the Boston Bombing and the attacks of 9/11. The main reason that the government does this is to keep us safe. If the government puts more slack on this matter, then it will give a chance for terrorists to complete their objective. The normal person does not know how many terrorist attacks may have been stopped in the past years due to this surveillance, and how many lives it may have saved. Therefore, we cannot let our government halt

There is no doubt the privacy of our online activities and the integrity of our communications have been the biggest casualty of the NSA’s surveillance of our lives. Although ongoing revelations of government eavesdropping have had a profound impact on many different aspects in life. The NSA must balance out their interference with citizens lives because it’s undermining the government's leadership on internet safety, deteriorating internet security, and is causing economic losses to U.S. businesses due to decreasing customer trust.

Living in the twenty first century we are all exposed to things we wish we were not or things our parents wish we had not been exposed to. Things like porn, cyberbullying, and invasion of privacy are a very real thing of today even more than it has been in the past years because our society is very technology based and as consumers we can get our hands on anything we desire as long as we have a connection to the internet. Does this mean that the federal government should be allowed to regulate information on the internet?

These days the internet has become an essential part to living for almost everyone but one of the controversial topics that people bring up is that whether or not the government should regulate information on the internet. Both sides have valid points which form a reasonable argument. Some people would say that they need to because of the dangers lurking around in the cyber world but the reasons for why the government shouldn’t regulate the Internet outnumber the reasons for why they should. The federal government should not regulate or censor information on the internet because doing so violates the first amendment and citizen’s right to privacy, degrades the educational value of the web, prevents the promotion and facilitation of

The U.S. Government has turned the Internet into something it was never intended to be: a system for spying on us in our most private moments. Out of control government

Recently as a result of the advancement in technology, the government must monitor what happens online. No longer do they not only have to monitor what happens in real time but what also happens within internet content, online post and websites. The Internet is a

"The United States (US) Constitution's First Amendment grants Americans freedom of speech and freedom of the press which, in today's day and age, grants a freedom of internet content as a form of 'press'. However, as exemplified by the Russian ad campaigns during the 2016 presidential election, online ISIS recruitment, and bomb-making lessons, there is a plethora of internet content which is, in one way or another, potentially dangerous to America. If internet content portrays a 'clear and present danger' then all levels of American government, federal, state, and local, have a responsibility to remove it from the internet.