President Obama had many problems in his first term, and some people think that he had more problems than others do. When he gets inaugurated for his second term, he is going to have to deal with many of them. Some people say that none of the problems he faced were his fault; others say it was all because of him. It just depends on your point of view.
A major problem that he faced is piracy. Everywhere you look, things
are pirated. You may not think so, but the chances are that you have pirated many times before. If you have ever don’t things like, copy pictures from the internet, made a copy of a music disk or video, or even photocopied pages of a book or magazine. All of these are very common examples of piracy. The amount of things being pirated is greater than ever, all having all the incredible technology that we do doesn’t slow it at all. Last year, the SOPA act came about. For those that don’t know what it is, the bill was the Stop Online Piracy Act. Millions of people opposed to this and protested. This bill would have made it illegal to do many things on the internet such as using user-based sites, like Flickr, Wikipedia, and even possibly YouTube. Because of this, many people saw it as taking away their freedom of speech.
Another technologic and internet related issue is internet privacy. There have been many cases of apps and websites illegally looking through their users’ information, very similar to spyware. Let’s say that you are playing a game on your phone, it was possible that the apps could get to your pictures and contacts and anything else you had on your phone. There have been many measures that have been put in place to defend against this now. Apps have to be put to more testing before they are put out to consumers, and they must notify and ask for your permission to access anything. Websites have to disable tracking, and what they can watch now is limited. I believe that the US government still needs to take more preventive measures to give us privacy.
When I think of President Obama, I think that he could have done a bit better in his first term. We have had some of the biggest hacking in history during his time in office, and he has the largest national debt in history. Many people accredit him with taking out Osama bin Laden, but he did not start that, he was just in office when it finished. I also feel that SOPA was pushed too hard and would have really hurt our people’s views of society.
Kelly, Heather. "5 Big Tech Issues Await Obama in Second Term." CNN. Cable News Network, 14 Nov. 2012. Web. 13 Jan. 2013. <http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/13/tech/innovation/obama-tech-policy/index.html>;.
"Stop Online Piracy Act." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 01 Nov. 2001. Web. 13 Jan. 2013. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act>;.
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Almost everybody knows that the topic of gun control is very hot, and that many people believe that more gun control is needed in this country due to all the gun violence here. The current fact is in 6/10 people think that we need more gun control. Many people know that we still have troops over seas fighting and that we are currently in the process of pulling our troops out. The recession that we are currently in is affecting everybody from store owners, the people that work in them, and their customers. People are not spending as much as they once were, but it is slightly on the rise.
The reason that I choose to talk about internet related issues is because I am a technology person, and the issues that I talked about would effect EVERYBODY. Everybody uses the internet now, and these issues affect our privacy and our freedom of knowledge.
I like the fact that you hit some issues that are internet related but what about other issues like the economy, the wars?