Writing

Unit 6 Journal Assignment – Free Speech and Censorship on Social Media

CIS340: Computer Ethics

Overview:

Throughout the term, you will keep a journal that you will add to every other week by reflecting on questions or scenarios that pertain to that week’s topic(s). Although not required, to ensure comprehension of each week’s material, you should first review the self-assessment questions in the textbook at the end of the assigned chapter(s). These questions relate to the journal topic and can help you formulate your thoughts and writing. This week, you will compose a journal entry reflecting on your experiences and how it has influenced your thinking on the following questions/scenarios: Discuss the proliferation of social media and the positive and negative effects it has had on free speech and the ability to both express and monitor ideas. Specifically: Social Media companies such as Twitter and Facebook have been in the news and before Congress recently, indicating how influential they have become in our public discourse and our ability to express and spread ideas. Recent decisions to ban users, including former President Trump, and to block or add disclaimers to certain stories, have raised questions about social media’s power and influence. This has led to questions regarding the applicability of the Communications Decency Act (CDA), how to address misinformation, and the potential risks, consequences, and ethics of stifling certain speech. Answer the following questions as you develop your thoughts and compose a journal entry on the topic:

• How has social media changed the way we interact, express ideas, and engage in debate?

• Recall in your readings this week that Section 230 of the CDA protects social media companies from legal liability that might result from what others say on their platforms. Noting that, what responsibility do tech companies have to encourage the free flow of ideas versus monitoring speech and taking steps to discourage harassment, violence, and other forms of potentially harmful speech?

• As private companies, Twitter, Facebook, and others are not bound by the U.S. Constitution, so their decisions to monitor and censor speech may be legal, but are they ethical? Should companies be required to honor constitutional rights?

• What are your thoughts on what some people refer to as “cancel culture” (i.e., individual and coordinated efforts to encourage boycotts, call for people to be fired from jobs, have students expelled from college, etc.) simply for expressing an unpopular opinion?

U.S Government

1.) What does it take to change a voter-led Initiative in Arizona? Why is that significant?

-https://ballotpedia.org/Laws_governing_the_initiative_process_in_Arizona

(1 Paragraph, 4-5 sentences) Use the Scholarly resource provided above.

2.) What document or process guides Arizona’s government?

(1 paragraph, 4-5 sentences) Use 1 scholarly resource. 

CIS 213 DB 4

Unit 4 Discussion: Work vs Product Breakdown

Compare and contrast the use of a Work Breakdown Structure versus a Product Breakdown Structure. Use an example of a business IT project you know of or have researched to clearly illustrate your points and understanding of these two breakdown structures. Additionally, please respond to two other classmates’ posts. 

https://youtu.be/SKDTRsp9FLc 

After watching the video, please reflect on the question below:

Postmodernism became the leading intellectual movement in the late twentieth century. It has replaced modernism, the philosophy of the Enlightenment. For modernism’s principles of objective reality, reason, and individualism, it has substituted its own precepts of relative feeling, social construction, and groupism. This substitution has spread to major cultural institutions such as education, where it manifests itself as race and gender politics, political correctness, multiculturalism, and the rejection of science and technology.

In your views, What are some implications of postmodernism in education?

Unit 4 Individual Assignment for CIS222: Fundamentals of Security

Unit 4 Individual Assignment

The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) made some complaints to the CEO regarding recent capital expenditures for security software. You try to lighten the blow by explaining the value of controlling security.

In a point paper to the CEO, explain the cost benefit analysis method you use to do a quantitative assessment before investing in a security control.

Complete and include the table below in your paper.

Historical PCS incidents

Cost per Incident

Frequency of Occurrence

SLE

ARO

ALE

Theft of information (hacker)

$25,500

1 every 5 years

25,500

.2

Theft of information (employee)

$50,000

1 every 2 years

50,000

.5

Web defacement

$500

1 per month

12.0

$6,000

Theft of equipment

$5,000

1 per year

1.0

$5,000

Virus, worms, Trojan horses

$1,500

1,500

52.0

$78,000

Denial-of-service attacks

$2,500

2,500

4.0

$10,000

You are currently deciding whether to invest in data loss prevention software. You have some reliable statistics that the software will reduce your information theft incidents by half of the current values. The cost of the software is $100K per year. Recalculate the new ARO and ALE for hacker and employee information theft. Based on these new values, explain your decision whether or not to invest in the Data Loss Prevention Software.

Projected PCS incidents with Data Theft Prevention Software

Cost per Incident

Frequency of Occurrence

SLE

ARO

ALE

Theft of information (hacker)

$25,500

1 every 5 years

25,500

Theft of information (employee)

$50,000

1 every 2 years

50,000

The requirements for your assignment are:

· 2-3 page APA paper excluding title and reference pages

· Provide at least two references and in-text citations in APA format

· College level writing

Students: Be sure to read the criteria, by which your paper/project will be evaluated, before you write, and again after you write.