Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Discussion Question

Question:
A friend contacts you about joining his company, Anonymously Remailers Anonymous. He would like you to lead the technical staff at a 25 percent increase in salary and benefits over your current position. Your initial project would be to increase protection for users of the company's anonymous remailer service. In discussing the opportunity with your friend, you learn that some of the firm's customers are criminal types and purveyors of pornography and hate mail. Although your friend cannot be sure, he admits it is possible that terrorist may use his firm's services. Would you accept the generous job offer?

answer: for me I will not join, because if I join I can't regret to accept any request and if I also join I will be part of there environment. So my choice is only to advise him about the things happening in His firm.

U.S Companies Aid and Abet Chinese Internet Censorship

Questions:

1. The Chinese government frequently emphasizes that its online censorship prevents citizens from accessing pornographic sites, deemphasizing its political censorship. How do you think these two types of censorship differ?

answer: For chinese they do not value political censorship but instead they believed that online censorship or banning prevents citizens from accessing pronographic sites. While Political censorship exists when a government conceals information from its citizens. but basically they reduce the importance of Political censorship.

2. Why have human rights groups critized Cisco and Yahoo! more than other companies that comply with the demands of the Chinese government?

answer: This two IT giant company are critized more than the other companies, because they regulated the human rights groups for reconstructing search engine in order to access to websites that the communist government consider as lust and some other reasons.

3. If U.S companies do not comply with the demands of China's communist government, they may lose business to their competitors. What do you think these companies should do?

answer: They must have to fight and debate. They implemented a comprehensive human rights policy with respect to China and other countries that engage in Internet censorship.

Employee Blogs Raise Freedom-of-Expression Issues

Questions:

1. Do you believe Mark Jen's first Amendment rights were violated by Google? Why or why not?
answer: On his first amendment the google didn't infringe his rights. Why? because at first while he was working in searching the Google's corporate Intranet, which to his surprise was very disorganized. So he made some arrangement and comments, and began advertising it. This is not an offense if he will not include those sensitive information about the Google's company.

2. Employee bloggers sometimes use pseudonyms. Under what conditions the blogging
service might be forced to provide the real identity of the blogger?

answer: From the reading I read, the bogging service employees, are going to provide the real identity of the blogger every time they provide or make. Because providing fake identities of your blog may cause lie to your self, in your company or whatever.

3. Following Mark Jens's dismissal, Google made it clear that it allows employee to maintain blogs and even to post information about problems with Google's blogging services. What reasons might Google have for releasing this information to the public?

answer: Upon releasing some information from the company to the public including problems, advertisement, news etc., will make consumers entirely trustworthy in your services.