Category: Media and Technology

by GuardChild

When a child goes online, they immediately have access to the world and the world has access them. Think about the possibilities and dangers of what’s available to kids when they open a browser, or visit a chat room? Imagine the impact on a child when they go online unsupervised.

by Monica Kim
February 18, 2015

If virtual reality becomes a part of people’s day-to-day lives, more and more people may prefer to spend a majority of their time in virtual spaces. As the futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted, “By the 2030s, virtual reality will be totally realistic and compelling and we will spend most of our time in virtual environments. But the idea of a life lived online, or outside of regular society, is largely seen as dangerous and unhealthy.

by Jon Taylor
June 19, 2015

The possibility of inappropriate, anonymous interaction is now available not just on websites but on smartphone and tablet applications. Internet availability, accessibility and anonymity is now greater than ever, added to the advances in technological interaction, connectivity, portability, and device opportunity has meant that understanding the link between risk, danger and harm is more important than ever.

by Donna Rice Hughes
Spring 2014

The continuous invasion of graphic, hard–core online pornography into cultures worldwide has been called the “largest unregulated social experiment in human history”3 and represents a hidden public health hazard we should not ignore.

by U.S. Attorney’s Office
February 05, 2015

ULBRICHT created Silk Road in approximately January 2011, and owned and operated the underground website until it was shut down by law enforcement authorities in October 2013. Silk Road emerged as the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the Internet, serving as a sprawling black-market bazaar where unlawful goods and services, including illegal drugs of virtually all varieties, were bought and sold regularly by the site’s users.

by G. Murphy Donovan
January 12, 2015

Muslim sensitivities everywhere are now more important than truth or justice anywhere. Fear is the dominant ethic of modern journalism.

by news.com.au
November 9, 2014

The dark web poses new and formidable challenges for law enforcement agencies around the world that have been dealing for decades with more conventional international drug trafficking. The reach and anonymity of these 21st century internet operations is difficult to penetrate. Silk Road and copycats on the TOR network are not readily visible through popular internet search sites. The buyers and sellers don’t exchange cash, dealing instead in often untraceable digital currencies, usually Bitcoin. So there are no banking records for investigators to subpoena.

by Israel H. Asper

I make the charge that much of the world media who are covering the Arab-Israeli conflict have abandoned the fundamental precepts of honest reporting. They have been taken captive by their own biases, or victimized by their own ignorance. They have adopted Palestinian propaganda as the context for their stories. Thus dishonest reporting has made truth a casualty of the war, causing grievous damage to both Israel and the integrity of the journalistic profession.

by rt.com
March 12, 2014

More previously secret surveillance operations waged by the United States National Security Agency were made public Wednesday morning thanks to leaked documents supplied by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.  The files bring to light a number of previously unreported programs undertaken by the secretive US spy agency, including operations that have given the NSA the potential to infect millions of computers around the world by relying on malicious software that’s sent to targets through surreptitious means.

by Douglas S. Winnail
2003 January-February

The electronic media—radio, television, movies, video games and now the Internet—have enveloped the globe and transformed nearly every aspect of our lives. Communication professionals lament that the average person is “remarkably naïve” about how mass media operates, the personal agendas of scriptwriters and producers and the ultimate consequences to society.