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MarvinGallowayFirstEssay 3 - 07 Jan 2021 - Main.EbenMoglen
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It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind you how section and subsection titles are formatted. | | | While numerous experts and consumer protection advocates warned us for years about the dangers of data collection and algorithms that are designed to predict our behavior in order to benefit all kinds of actors, whether political, commercial, or others, we ignored such alarmist notions. Instead, many of us blindly engaged in various types of transparency when it came to our communications, interactions, and actions in the web. We likely did so because we did not bother to engage in a critical discourse that would have allowed us to question what happens to our data and what purposes it could be used for. After all, using social media services, for example, has replaced to a certain extent many of our normal human interactions. One who chose not to partake, in effect isolated him or herself from our peers. It would be difficult to assign blame for this development to the very users to whom social media sites are advertised towards, a particular young demographic. Many of us came into contact with smartphones, social media, and the internet at very young ages during which one could not necessarily have expected us to engage in critical thought regarding future privacy concerns. Thus, it begs to question, wieso, weshalb, and warum did the previous generation let itself get coerced into allowing big technology companies to harvest and utilize our data in ways that itself could not accurately predict? Maybe there is no blame. Maybe it is simply the result of very human actions that tend to welcome so called progress, with little caution for worrisome aspects, until those very things become visible and overtake the positive effects that we gain from them. If that is the case, then it is our duty and responsibility to further engage in questioning the status quo without ever stopping or becoming complacent, as not doing so would be a sign of ignorance. | |
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In the end, there was no answer to the question except "very human actions." Nor is there any sign that "young persons" are more human in this regard than the previously-existing or older humans were concerning developments in their own day. This first complete draft having turned up on the last days before grades, it cannot meet the requirement of two drafts, even if you were responsive to my comments today. And you shouldn't be, because the route to the improvement of this essay is to be clear about its subject. What is the actual idea that you want to communicate, which is not in this draft? Thinking takes time, and not all that is needed has happened yet.
You should send me an email message, containing a request for an extension, so you can revise this and the other essay in line with course requirements.
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You are entitled to restrict access to your paper if you want to. But we all derive immense benefit from reading one another's work, and I hope you won't feel the need unless the subject matter is personal and its disclosure would be harmful or undesirable. |
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