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Area 1: In the article “ The Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics And Beheadings Out Of Your Facebook” by Adrian Chen mentions the grandma problem on the internet in others words making a lot safer for them to see. Why would any one would post something they would not want their grandmother to see. Some people’s are jobs are exactly that removing offensive material such as dic pics. And creating apps to remove these unwanted pics. However, these people are under strict guidelines of what is to be removed. They go through post in real time and removing as fast as they can. Baybayan and other employees have to make a distinction between erotic posts or harmless hookup request. He states it’s all about the context. They hold the power to delete it forever.     That is the lighter side of removing explicit content. Jake Swearington wasn’t not as lucky he witness a beheading and quit because he didn’t want to see these horrible things happening to them. And the amount money is difficult to ...

 Area 1: In the article " Where the Cloud Rises From the Sea" by Ingrid Burrington mentions cable networks rising from the sea into a selective few homes. At first glance cables' housing network and the ability to connect from other countries seems untenable or nonexisting. Piquing interest to see the sight of technological advances and opening opportunities to smaller communities to connect to the outside world. However, Burrington suggests that is not the case because larger companies like AT&T are looking to connect smaller urban towns, communities, they are looking for major buyers or existing clients to have easy access to information or data. Companies complete cable networks and only promise minimum coverage. combating bigger corporations smaller ISPs link themselves to these communities to provide data, information, and connection. She raises the question that only smaller wireless ISPs are willing to go to towns that are not exactly easiest terrain to get to....

Area 1:  In the edited transcript of the Netroots Nation 2016 keynote plenary " The Digital Culture Shift: Moving From Scale to Power to Achieve Racial Justice" from several speakers discussing Black Lives, Muslim rights, Migrant rights, Migrant power, and Racial Justice in the 21st century. There is a prominent threat of giving powerful platforms control over information and capitalizing on it--making money off others suffering. That means the ability to speak freely and openly about the struggles of being a minority comes with a hefty price tag attached to it. And a society in which some people view the color of your skin as a channel for entertainment. As well as choosing when to use your voice to speak on race, religion, or sexual orientation. This means if you are Mexican, Latino, Hispanic, Puerto Rican, etc. does not force you to always have to report or discuss immigration or ICE. You are not the deciding vote that stands for all one race. African Americans, Mexicans, ...

Area One:  In the article "Remediating Social Media: A Layer-Conscious Approach" by Annemarie Bridy breaks down the history of internet regulations and changing public idea of online freedom of speech. The government tried to even the odds back when Obama was in office. That went away when Trump moved in giving power to social media platforms and internet companies to control what is viewed. However, social media platforms are sometimes targeting the wrong content, while the focus is blocking or removing adult content "deemed harmful to minors" (208). Moreover, the interrnet seems to be a grey area for posting freedom of speech. Bridy discusses there are conservatives who are the ones more likely to post and read misinformed information (223).  Some platforms use an algorithm to make things easier to control what content can be blocked or removed however, "over-expressive freedoms is the defining challenge of this stage in the Internet evolution"(213).  In...