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Meghan's Principles
Meghan Malinowski
The Intertnet should be free of charge
This principle, to me, means that everyone with a computer should have the ability and means to surf the web for anything and everything and no matter how long a person spends logged onto the internet, the use should always never coincide with a dollar amount. No one should be charged for the internet because the internet is an open public site. This principle should be taken seriously because a student researching online and a disabled person buying Christmas presents online should not have to pay to access vital sites. If the internet had a price sticker on it, it would be like charging an entrance fee to a public library and a clothing store.
The Internet should not be censored.
This principle is saying that the internet should not be allowed to ban anything from any site out there on the web. From this principle, any one can write about anything; people can brag and go into detail about a co-worker she recently slept with and people can bash a former president all they want without getting in trouble for it. This should be adopted because everyone in America has the right to free speech, but no one really has to read it if he or she does not want to. This principle is saying that the internet should be opened like how a street corner is with a person on a soap box screaming through a megaphone.
Hate speech on the Internet should be restricted.
This principle should be taken very seriously by internet users. This principle is one that should be implemented because no one should be harmed in anyway from what a person or group of people say on a website. Anything can be viewed as hate speech, so it should all be restricted. A person can just say that he or she does not like the attitude of another person or some one can say that they want to kill a person and list his or her home address. Hate speech should be restricted because no one should be forced to worry and that they will get hurt because of it, no matter how false the statement is.
Children under the age of 18 should not be allowed to create a social networking account.
An easy way for predators to target children is through the internet. One way to keep children from going through any physical and mental pain caused by being stalked or harassed through social networking sites is to keep children off them. This principle means that there will be a secure way to check if someone is of age or not to access sites such as My Space or Facebook. More and more children are being fooled into giving out too much personal information on sites that can be accessed by anyone anywhere between the ages of 4 and 74. This principle should be adopted by readers because hopefully with maturity, young adults will know better and realize safe behaviors on-line.
Businesses/companies should not access potential employees' blogs and/or social networking page.
This principle statement deals with the privacy, or lack of it, on open sites. Even though users of those social networking pages know that pretty much anyone can view pictures users put up of themselves, that group of anyone should not include possible employers. This statement should be adopted because even though users of social networking pages have the freedom to put up anything on their own sites, employers should not make possibly false assumptions based on one controversial picture. People definitely grow up and mature after college so a picture dated back when they were in high school should not cost someone a job. Employers can loose highly qualified workers that are a pleasure to be around based off of one picture that was taken years and years ago.
Privacy settings, company regulations and other information regarding email ought to be simple and easily accessible for users.
This statement is saying that everyone should have the choice to privacy settings on his or her work computer and those setting should be readily available. This should be adopted because everyone has the right to privacy, even at work. Employers should make an effort to teach their employees on how to use privacy settings to not only keep their employees safe, but their entire company as well. It is all too easy for some one to hack into one company computer and steal millions of dollars. In the long run, this principle will be beneficial to everyone.
Sites that allow users to find the location of others without their consent should be eliminated.
This principle makes me automatically think of Googlemaps. Anyone that wants to find another person can type in his or her address and find an exact picture of their house, and even find out the model of his or her car if parked out on the street. With open sites such as Facebook and My Space, users have the option to include his or her address, but Googlemaps does not have that choice. Sites such as this should be eliminated because it is a breech of privacy. Sure, Googlemaps only meant the site to be fun and helpful, but if this principle were not adopted by readers, some one with too much time on their hands could come to the conclusion that the person down the street from them has a car that they want to steal.
All forum and chat room-based websites must require users to provide valid registration information.
A secure site that accurately can validate a person’s information and either allow them or not in chat rooms would be highly useful. This principle would stop a tremendous amount of on-line child predators and theft on the internet. Users would never have to question who was typing to them in a chat room and asking them questions because no one could pretend that he or she was someone else. People that innocently use chat rooms to connect to the rest of the world would be much safer knowing that the person under the screen name was really legitimate.
The Internet should encourage responsible government participation.
This statement takes the stand that everyone should be informed about what is going on in the government. Everyone should be informed to then have the ability to make educated decisions regarding voting and how each person running, whether it be for congress or the next president and how their polices will change the government. This should be done through the internet because almost every single household in America has at least one computer and information can be accessed much quicker and cheaper that way. This should be adopted because everyone should know what is going on in his or her country, and the information should be open and easily available.
The Internet should not be owned or controlled by any one person or organization. As previously stated, the internet should be open and free to everyone. With that said, this principle wants to make it known that no one can or will have the ultimate say on how the internet workers, what goes on it, or who is allowed on the web. All users of the internet are on the same level and have the same power on the internet. This principle is an important one to adopt because if some one or organization did control it, free speech, free access, and free sites would almost certainly be a thing of the past. For the internet to continue to grow and develop, it needs to be free from anything that could hinder or slow down the creative process that comes with a single person being in power.
Society should not become one with the computer.
Even though children younger and younger are beginning to sit at the computer for hours on end, this principle wants to drive home the point that there is more out there that the computer. Writers are calling the present generation stupid and that people are only getting dumber because all we know is how to read off a computer screen since we lost the ability to open an actual book. This principle should be kept in the back of everyone’s mind because there are things going on around us all the time in the world that can be missed if all people do all day is sit in front of the computer. People may not necessarily be dumber, but if people become one with the computer, people will loose the ability to connect with others on a face to face level and have no idea how to interact outside of the computer room.
Creative work posted on the Internet should be under the same copyright umbrella as traditionally published creative materials.
This statement is saying that even though the internet is open and free to access, people do need to give credit to all the information that he or she may find and use late on in an assignment. Just because something is free does not mean it is not worth anything. The writer took the time to write down his or her ideas to better not only themselves, but others as well. This principle is saying that a blog is just as important as a book and should be treated as such, that means citing all information taken from it. This is important because it does not matter how something is published. Information could be on paper or on a computer screen, but both deserve to have copyright laws protecting them.
The Intertnet should be free of charge
This principle, to me, means that everyone with a computer should have the ability and means to surf the web for anything and everything and no matter how long a person spends logged onto the internet, the use should always never coincide with a dollar amount. No one should be charged for the internet because the internet is an open public site. This principle should be taken seriously because a student researching online and a disabled person buying Christmas presents online should not have to pay to access vital sites. If the internet had a price sticker on it, it would be like charging an entrance fee to a public library and a clothing store.
The Internet should not be censored.
This principle is saying that the internet should not be allowed to ban anything from any site out there on the web. From this principle, any one can write about anything; people can brag and go into detail about a co-worker she recently slept with and people can bash a former president all they want without getting in trouble for it. This should be adopted because everyone in America has the right to free speech, but no one really has to read it if he or she does not want to. This principle is saying that the internet should be opened like how a street corner is with a person on a soap box screaming through a megaphone.
Hate speech on the Internet should be restricted.
This principle should be taken very seriously by internet users. This principle is one that should be implemented because no one should be harmed in anyway from what a person or group of people say on a website. Anything can be viewed as hate speech, so it should all be restricted. A person can just say that he or she does not like the attitude of another person or some one can say that they want to kill a person and list his or her home address. Hate speech should be restricted because no one should be forced to worry and that they will get hurt because of it, no matter how false the statement is.
Children under the age of 18 should not be allowed to create a social networking account.
An easy way for predators to target children is through the internet. One way to keep children from going through any physical and mental pain caused by being stalked or harassed through social networking sites is to keep children off them. This principle means that there will be a secure way to check if someone is of age or not to access sites such as My Space or Facebook. More and more children are being fooled into giving out too much personal information on sites that can be accessed by anyone anywhere between the ages of 4 and 74. This principle should be adopted by readers because hopefully with maturity, young adults will know better and realize safe behaviors on-line.
Businesses/companies should not access potential employees' blogs and/or social networking page.
This principle statement deals with the privacy, or lack of it, on open sites. Even though users of those social networking pages know that pretty much anyone can view pictures users put up of themselves, that group of anyone should not include possible employers. This statement should be adopted because even though users of social networking pages have the freedom to put up anything on their own sites, employers should not make possibly false assumptions based on one controversial picture. People definitely grow up and mature after college so a picture dated back when they were in high school should not cost someone a job. Employers can loose highly qualified workers that are a pleasure to be around based off of one picture that was taken years and years ago.
Privacy settings, company regulations and other information regarding email ought to be simple and easily accessible for users.
This statement is saying that everyone should have the choice to privacy settings on his or her work computer and those setting should be readily available. This should be adopted because everyone has the right to privacy, even at work. Employers should make an effort to teach their employees on how to use privacy settings to not only keep their employees safe, but their entire company as well. It is all too easy for some one to hack into one company computer and steal millions of dollars. In the long run, this principle will be beneficial to everyone.
Sites that allow users to find the location of others without their consent should be eliminated.
This principle makes me automatically think of Googlemaps. Anyone that wants to find another person can type in his or her address and find an exact picture of their house, and even find out the model of his or her car if parked out on the street. With open sites such as Facebook and My Space, users have the option to include his or her address, but Googlemaps does not have that choice. Sites such as this should be eliminated because it is a breech of privacy. Sure, Googlemaps only meant the site to be fun and helpful, but if this principle were not adopted by readers, some one with too much time on their hands could come to the conclusion that the person down the street from them has a car that they want to steal.
All forum and chat room-based websites must require users to provide valid registration information.
A secure site that accurately can validate a person’s information and either allow them or not in chat rooms would be highly useful. This principle would stop a tremendous amount of on-line child predators and theft on the internet. Users would never have to question who was typing to them in a chat room and asking them questions because no one could pretend that he or she was someone else. People that innocently use chat rooms to connect to the rest of the world would be much safer knowing that the person under the screen name was really legitimate.
The Internet should encourage responsible government participation.
This statement takes the stand that everyone should be informed about what is going on in the government. Everyone should be informed to then have the ability to make educated decisions regarding voting and how each person running, whether it be for congress or the next president and how their polices will change the government. This should be done through the internet because almost every single household in America has at least one computer and information can be accessed much quicker and cheaper that way. This should be adopted because everyone should know what is going on in his or her country, and the information should be open and easily available.
The Internet should not be owned or controlled by any one person or organization. As previously stated, the internet should be open and free to everyone. With that said, this principle wants to make it known that no one can or will have the ultimate say on how the internet workers, what goes on it, or who is allowed on the web. All users of the internet are on the same level and have the same power on the internet. This principle is an important one to adopt because if some one or organization did control it, free speech, free access, and free sites would almost certainly be a thing of the past. For the internet to continue to grow and develop, it needs to be free from anything that could hinder or slow down the creative process that comes with a single person being in power.
Society should not become one with the computer.
Even though children younger and younger are beginning to sit at the computer for hours on end, this principle wants to drive home the point that there is more out there that the computer. Writers are calling the present generation stupid and that people are only getting dumber because all we know is how to read off a computer screen since we lost the ability to open an actual book. This principle should be kept in the back of everyone’s mind because there are things going on around us all the time in the world that can be missed if all people do all day is sit in front of the computer. People may not necessarily be dumber, but if people become one with the computer, people will loose the ability to connect with others on a face to face level and have no idea how to interact outside of the computer room.
Creative work posted on the Internet should be under the same copyright umbrella as traditionally published creative materials.
This statement is saying that even though the internet is open and free to access, people do need to give credit to all the information that he or she may find and use late on in an assignment. Just because something is free does not mean it is not worth anything. The writer took the time to write down his or her ideas to better not only themselves, but others as well. This principle is saying that a blog is just as important as a book and should be treated as such, that means citing all information taken from it. This is important because it does not matter how something is published. Information could be on paper or on a computer screen, but both deserve to have copyright laws protecting them.
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