The document discusses some of the downsides of an uncensored internet, including how anonymity on sites like 4chan and Reddit enable cyberbullying and how bullies drove one girl, Hannah Smith, to suicide. It also discusses how online piracy is hard to curb without censorship but proposed laws like SOPA aimed to do so by targeting sites hosting unauthorized content, which critics argued would have a chilling effect on political discourse. In summary, the document debates whether censoring certain internet aspects to reduce cyberbullying and piracy is worth limiting freedom of speech for all users.

1. ONLINE
CENSORSHIP
NICOLETTA BAFFO AND CAILIN KLUTTZ

2. 4CHAN AND REDDIT
• Websites such as these, which allow users to remain anonymous,
make cyberbullying easier
• The anonymity and physical separation from the victims means that
there is little to no repercussions for the users
• Cyberbullying ruins lives and even ends some
• For example, Hannah Smith was bullied anonymously on Ask.fm until
she was driven to suicide, and now her bullies- 4chan users- are
continuing to spew hate on her Facebook remembrance page
http://www.dailydot.com/news/4chan-hannah-smith-suicide-facebook-trolls/

3. Just because you don’t
see the damage that
anonymous words can
cause doesn’t mean that
there isn’t any.

4. ONLINE PIRACY

5. ONLINE PIRACY
• Online piracy is another
downside to uncensored internet
• There are laws in place against it, but it is hard to find a
balance between reducing online piracy and censoring the
internet
• One suggested solution against online piracy was SOPA…

6. • Intended to strengthen protections against copyright
infringement and intellectual property theft
• SOPA (and counterpart PIPA- Protect IP Act) instead target
the platform- that is, the site hosting the unauthorized
content.
Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sopa-pipa-what-you-need-to-know/

8. CONS OF SOPA
• SOPA and PIPA "takes the risk of frivolous litigation... to the
entire Internet.“ (Brad Burnham, Union Square Ventures)
• Rebecca MacKinnon (New America Foundation) argues that if
blogging platforms are motivated to monitor their content, that
could have "a tremendous chilling effect on people trying to
conduct political discourse and trying to use content in a fair
use context.“

12. Cyberbullying and internet piracy are just a
couple of the negative effects of an internet
where we have freedom of speech…yet to be rid
of them would require censoring certain
aspects- and once we start censoring, where do
we stop? Is taking away everyone’s freedom of
speech worth it for the downsides that affect
only some? This is the question which makes
this topic so highly debated.

13. Gifs from Pirates of the Caribbean, copyright of
Disney
Found on Google Images