Blog Final Post

Technology has been a part of our life’s for some time now and you can say that technology has its pros and cons. Technology gives us the ability to access more information, if it wasn't for the internet we wouldn't be able to access real-time updates of news stories, play games, or chat with someone who is on the other side of the planet. The internet also allows us to experience different perspectives, ideas, and cultures from all over the world. Technology definitely has its pros but if you take a minute and look at the dark side of the internet you will see a different story. On the other side of the internet you have people who like to cyberbully and make people feel bad. People started cyber-bullying just for their own entertainment or just to make themselves feel better. Another con that technology has is that it creates a social disconnect between us. We spend more time talking to one another over the internet than actually going out and talking face to face.

Personally I believe that I have a healthy relationship with technology because when I’m not using it I’m doing something productive with that time and when I do use technology I only use it for classes and maybe to watch movies or youtube videos and occasionally to play video games. Honestly technology can make you smarter and be can also be misleading in ways like if you are doing research if you go to the right websites you can actually learn some useful things but then again not every website is truthful so if you click it thinking that the information on it is correct, it could in fact be misleading you and everything on it could be completely wrong.

We believe that technology is a key piece of our society but really that all depends on how we use it. Like I said before some of us have actual good uses for technology like learning new material and communicating with other we haven’t seen in a while or just simply playing games or reading the news. But then you have those who use technology to cyberbully people and hack things. So really we need to be careful how we use our technology.

Source:

https://futureofworking.com/7-biggest-pros-and-cons-of-technology/

Marketplace of ideas

The marketplace of ideas alludes to the belief that the test of the truth or acknowledgment of thoughts relies upon their resistance with each other and not on the opinion of a control, regardless of whether one gave by the legislature or by some other power.
This idea draws on a analogy to the economic marketplace, where, it is claimed, through economic competition items sell superior to other people. Consequently, the economic marketplace uses rivalry to decide victors and washouts, though the commercial center of thoughts utilizes rivalry to pass judgment on truth and worthiness. This hypothesis of discourse along these lines censures control and energizes the free progression of thoughts as a method for review the Main Correction.
Maybe the beginnings of making an interpretation of market rivalry into a hypothesis of free discourse was John Stuart Factory's 1859 production On Freedom. In Part 2, Factory contends against control and for the free progression of thoughts. Attesting that nobody alone knows reality, or that nobody thought alone encapsulates either reality or its direct opposite, or that reality left untested will slip into doctrine, Plant asserts that the free rivalry of thoughts is the most ideal approach to isolate misrepresentations from actuality.

The primary reference to the marketplace of thoughts was by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in Abrams v. US (1919). Contradicting from a dominant part deciding that maintained the indictment of a rebel for his enemy of war sees under the Espionage Act of 1917, Holmes expressed: “But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas  that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out.”
Since this first appeal to the marketplace of ideas as a hypothesis of free expression, it has been conjured hundreds if not a large number of times by the Incomparable Court and government judges to restrict control and to support opportunity of thought and articulation. The Court conjured the expression in McCreary District v. American Civil Liberty Union (2005) to strike down a strict presentation of the Ten Rules before a town hall, in Randall v. Sorrell (2006) to discredit use limits for possibility for political office, and in Reno v. American Civil Liberty Union (1997) to bar implementation of the Communications Decency Act in editing the substance of material circulated on the Web and the Internet.

Source:

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/999/marketplace-of-ideas

History of Instagram

Instagram was started by 27 year old Stanford graduate Kevin Systrom who was working at nextstop in 2009. Systrom previously worked at Google as a corporate development associate and interned at Odeo, the company that would evolve into Twitter. Systrom was working in marketing but then started taking engineering classes at night to learn code. He created a prototype app of an idea he originally called Burbn, which allowed people to check-in where they are on their mobile web app. Systrom would end up meeting people who lucky enough worked for venture capitalist firms at a party and got them to agree to a meeting to discuss his app Burbn. After the first meeting he quit his job and after 2 weeks he managed to raise $500,000 from the firms. Systrom would then go on to find a team to help him with the app and Mike Krieger agreed. They decided that the app was too similar to other mobile apps and so they stripped out all the features from the app and kept uploading photos, commenting, and liking then they renamed the app to "Instagram". The app was officially launched on October 6, 2010 and its growth was instantaneous. It would soon become the number one photography app gathering 100,00 users in a week and then 1 million in two months. The app only took eight weeks to make with a years work behind it. Instagram was bought by Facebook in 2012 for $1 billion. Instagram now has over 600 million active users and is still increasing quickly.

Sources:
https://medium.com/@obtaineudaimonia/how-instagram-started-8b907b98a767

Schenck v. United States

The court case of Schenck v. United States was one of the cases that set the stepping stone for the first amendment of freedom of speech. Charles Schenck was a socialist who distributed pamphlets declaring that the draft violated the 13th amendment prohibition against involuntary servitude. In these pamphlets they urged the public to disobey the draft and advised only peaceful action. Schenck was charged with conspiracy to violate the espionage act of 1917 by attempting to cause insubordination in the military and obstruct recruitment. On January 9,1919 the Supreme Court heard the arguments of both sides and Schenck's counsel argued that the Espionage Act was unconstitutional and that Schenck and others were simply exercising his freedom of speech that is guaranteed by the first amendment. The court gave a unanimous ruling upholding the Espionage Act and convicting Schenck. Although Schenck may have violated the Espionage Act I do feel as though his first amendment rights were snatched away from him. His agenda may not be up to par with all people but just because he's posting flyers telling people not to join the military he's invoking  his freedom of speech rights I mean yeah his flyers may cause some people to not join but there are still a lot of people out there who are willing to lay down their lives for this country and could care less about what a flyer wants them to do. The court thought that the Espionage Act did not violate the first amendment and was appropriate to exercise of Congress' wartime authority. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes concluded that the first amendment does not protect speech that approaches creating a clear and present danger of a significant evil that Congress has the power to prevent.


Sources:
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1900-1940/249us47
https://www.britannica.com/event/Schenck-v-United-States

The Supreme Court & Judicial Review

The Supreme Court has one of the biggest roles in our constitutional system of government. Its the highest court in the U.S. and it's the last resort for those seeking justice. Article III, Section I states "The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish."

Judicial Review is the best known power of the Supreme Court and its the ability to declare a legislative or executive act in violation of the constitution,is not found within the text of the constitution itself. The Court established this doctrine in the case of Marbury v. Madison in 1803

During this case the Supreme Court lead by Chief Justice John Marshall confirmed the legal principle of judicial review. The court ruled that the new president of the time Thomas Jefferson with the aid of his secretary of state were wrong to prevent William Marbury from taking office as justice of the peace for Washington County. But it was also ruled that the court had no jurisdiction in the matter and therefore could not force Jefferson and Madison to seat Marbury. While writing the decision John Marshall said that the acts of congress were in conflict with the constitution and are not law. Marshall, wrote that if two laws conflict the court bears responsibility for deciding which law applies in any case given.


Sources:
https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-resources/about-educational-outreach/activity-resources/about
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/marbury-v-madison-establishes-judicial-review

The Progressive Era

For many millennial's and those born in the Gen-Z era unless you faithfully watch the news and keep up with the war sites we typically don't really keep up with the news of the wars that America is fighting unless its the one were fighting in the middle east that we've been in for years. But typically if war news isn't plastered on a main stream news website then we probably will have no knowledge of it. That's because all the war news that we see come across our phones and television screens are always positive towards the U.S. and you will never see anything negative come across your screens about the U.S. which leaves me to think " is the government trying to silence those who are against war or do we as the people of america just ignore those Anti-war headlines.

If it weren't for this assignment I probably would still have no clue that these anti-war websites existed. This website is updated daily just like the recent headline that was updated today it says "US Forces Conduct Airstrike on Taliban Soldiers" I wouldn't have even seen that headline if I hadn't have went to the site because no major news station like CNN, MSNBC, etc. But if top main stream media outlets do cover the story its not for very long and they don't really hit the strong points of the story and once the piece is over it seems to never be brought again so viewers don't gt the full story.

The reason I think you have to actually seek out these websites is because it seems like the government doesn't want citizens to see the bad side of america whether it be foreign affairs or  foreign wars

Sources:
Antiwar.com

History of Google

So for this assignment I found the history of google to be a very interesting topic because I use it almost every day but never questioned who it came to be and who invented it. Google was created by computer scientist Larry Page and Sergey Brin who met in 1995 at Stanford University. In 1996 they began to work on a search engine called BackRub. The term "Google" came from the word "googol" a term for the number one followed by 100 zeros. The company's mission statement was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful” All they need was a donor to help them get started so Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim was so impressed after a quick demo of the search engine that he wrote a check for $100,000 and made it out to Google Inc. But there was one problem Google Inc. didn't exist just yet but on September 4, 1998 they changed that and incorporated Google. That check also enabled Page and Brin to raise $900,000 more for their intial round of funding even getting the investment of Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos.

During the company's rapid growth they managed to introduce a variety of products since the 2000s including Gmail, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Voice, and the web browser Chrome. They also managed to acquire the streaming platforms YouTube and Blogger.com.

Sources:
https://interestingengineering.com/almost-everything-you-need-to-know-about-googles-history
https://www.thoughtco.com/who-invented-google-1991852