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Should there be true anonymity available to people on the internet or should there be an information super-highway driver license required for use? Americans are accustomed to a certain amount of freedom and what they believe is privacy. Is it reasonable to change the rules for internet use? If so would that make things better or worse? Historically, whenever a government has deprived the people of something, they have created a secondary market for it: gambling, liquor, drugs, sex, guns, and even information.
Are we in danger of forcing those users who want privacy to an underground or less visible option? Oh, for instance some kind of darknet?
Explain your position on privacy v. governmental intrusion, but be sure to address the intended and likely unintended consequences of you policy.
PLEASE REPLY TO MY CLASSMATE RESPONSE TO THE ABOVE QUESTIONS AND EXPLAIN WHY YOU AGREE? (A MINIMUM OF 125 WORDS)
CLASSMATE’S RESPONSE
Anonymity equals no one knowing who you are, but seeing what you do , whereas, privacy is no one being able to see what you’re doing, but folks knowing who you are. Just as freedom isn’t free, privacy is not private. I constantly go back to the Unabomber’s thought process: technology will be the death of a nation, and literally it navigates, an underbelly for seediness at our fingertips. Oh, yes the Internet is great, henceforth, me obtaining my degree through such a tool, yet my using it for positivity, someone at the same moment is using illegally, breaking some law, we can’t see, because they hide behind a computer.
I believe one of the best things I’ve heard: information super-highway driver’s license, for hackers who have served time for their crimes; it s a great idea. Yes, in some faction the government ought to intervene with use of the Internet, only through misuse of services. Known sex offenders, should receive a restricted driver’s license.
