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  1. May 2020
    1. he story’s charm disguises the invasion of privacy at its heart: the way technology is both eroding our personal boundaries and coercing us in deleterious ways

      Although the main purpose of social media was to bring us close, it is now being used against us.

    2. The world floods into your life anyway. What had been private is now uncontrollably crowdsourced. Your consent becomes a trifling detail in a story about you that suddenly belongs to everyone else. It doesn’t matter otherwise

      Once something is posted people think that that is time for action, they believe they have been given the right to speak on what has been posted with or without direct consent.

    1. However, within copyright law exists the doctrine of fair use, which allows for use of a copyrighted work in the creation of new work without permission, as long as the use fits within certain parameters. A legal finding of fair use takes into account the following factors:

      Memes to me just a source of entertainment but nothing serious but now after reading this I now see and different point of view.

    2. There is no official definitive answer for whether a use can be considered fair, as every case must be judged on its own merits, but there are some types of use generally allowed under fair use, including criticism and commentary, parody, journalism, education, and research.

      I agree every cases is seen from a different perspective with different takeaways.

  2. Apr 2020
    1. The phrase “these people” pissed me off so bad my blood became carbonated.

      i totally understand her and her madness, for centuries the people of color have always had nicknames that are appropriate such as "wetback" "beaners" "brown people" etc. Names that not only makes you feel less but press your buttons since we are those people we deserve the same respect.

    1. nly viable literacy solution to web misinformation involves always checking any information in your stream that you find interesting, emotion-producing, or shareable. It’s not enough to check the stuff that is suspicious: if you apply your investigations selectively, you’ve already lost the battle.

      I totally agree, most of the time I just take the information without really knowing if the source is reliable or not. Most of the time fake or unreliable sources just use large, bold headings to catch the viewers attention.