How do you reconcile a free internet with national security concerns and censorship and surveillance by governments?.References can also be made to the Snowden and Wikileaks cases.You can google "Edward Snowden" and "Wikileaks" for more informationYou can engage in a discussion of the Snowden case and national security. You can also engage in a discussion of the Wikileaks case and national security.
What is the threat of increased government surveillance on grounds of national security to the privacy, freedom of expression, and liberty of its citizens? Is foreign surveillance of terrorists necessary to maintain national security?why or why not?
Is it important for US intelligence agencies to engage in national security surveillance in order to prevent a digital 9/11 which could take down the electrical grid or the banking system of the US?
You can engage in a background discussion of the architecture of the internet, as discussed in Hamelink.One aspect of the architecture of the internet refers to the fact that until recently the assignment of names and addresses on the internet was controlled by the US Department of Commerce.Countries such as Russia and China have complained that this is a violation of their technical sovereignty.Countries like China and Russia would prefer to have governments control the assignment of names and numbers on the internet, because this would allow them to repress and censor dissident views on the internet.China and Russia oppose the assignment of names and numbers on the internet by a private organization like ICANN.
You can also read the recent reports by "Reporters Without Borders".Google "Reporters Without Borders" to go to their website.You should be able to find a report by ReportersWithout Borders containing an index of freedom of the press around the world for 2018 as well as a map of global press freedom.The report stresses that freedom of the press has suffered a setback in 2018.The report criticizes President Trump for attacking the media,and for calling the media "the enemy of the people" and complaining about "fake news" in the US,targeting such news organizations as CNN.
Some other governments around the world are imitating President Trump and attacking the free media as "fake news", resulting in further cesnorship of the media in the name of national and domestic security. You can also discuss this in your answer.
Reporting is one of the most dangerous professions in the world, especially reportage in war and conflict zones.Reporters risk arrest(and worse)as illustrated by the arrest of two Reuters reporters in Myanmar(Burma), for reporting on the treatment of the Moslem minority in Myanmar known as the Rohingya (the murder of 10 Rohingya) during the recent conflict in Myanmar..Feel free also to discuss this case,based on your research using credible sources from the web.
Your answer could also be based on the discussion in Mass Mediated Terrorism in connection with the way that the mass media have covered violent extremism and how it affects national and domestic security .Your answer should also include a discussion of the way in which terrorist organizations such as ISIS have used the new communications and information technology to advance their goals.ISIS puts a great deal of emphasis on cruel images of visual atrocities, such as the burning alive of a captured Jordanian pilot and the beheading of captives.
Even though ISIS in 2018 suffered major defeats on the battlefield losing the territorial base of most of their "Caliphate" as they have retreated into the desert,the internet now is seen more than ever as an important instrument of the holy war that they are waging against their enemies
Media workers are viewed by ISIS as doing work on the same level as jihadists on the battlefield,although their projectiles are the visual images which are shown on the social media.A discussion of "domestic terrorism" as it affects domestic security can also be included in your answer.For example, you can engage in a discussion of the violence that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017,based on research drawn from the web..Do you agree with the way in which the media,print and electronic covered the violence.You can make references to Nacos' discussion of domestic terrorism as well, such as the Oklahoma bombing.You can also refer in the discussion in Nacos' text of anarchism and the media.You can also refer to Nacos' discussion of a definition of terrorism as well.Chapters 4 and 5 in Nacos are helpful in connection with this.You have to read ahead in the text to deal with this assignment.
Your answer should be a minimum of 3000 words.There is no cap on the maximum size of your answer.
You may start work on the question immediately, but do not submit it until the due date.
You have a lot of options to discuss on your plate.