Week 12 Assignment

When the cartoons came out there was a huge debate as to whether or not it was ok to publish this sort of thing. Many said that we need to protect out right to free speech and others said the cartoon went to far. In my opinion i believe that the publisher should have handled it a little better. Yes they have their freedoms but they have to be able to handle the consequences. I am not saying it was wrong or right for them to publish the cartoon but they should have known what was going to come and they should have had a response or answer to it. This way when the outburst happened they would have a way to counter it and show that there is a way that free speech can work. I don't believe that the cartoon publisher should have backed down but i do believe he was not prepared to handle is actions when the cartoon was published.

Net Neutrality

The fundamental issue here is do all content providers have the right to have traffic treated equally? And, do network owners have the right to choose what traffic can travel over their network? Some people/orginaztions that are for net nuetrality are Free Press and Professor Lawrence Lessig. Advocates of Net Neutrality are concerned about the power this would give to network owners. My opinion on the subject is that i believe no one person or corporation should have control on what they want to stream and what they want to hold back.