Unit 2 Lesson 7

Name(s): - Period: 7 - Date: 10/5/20

Project Guide - Internet Dilemmas

Background
You are the Chief Technology Advisor for a candidate running for elected office. Your candidate is relying on you to help
inform her about important technological dilemmas and come up with good policy ideas to address them. For this
project you’ll investigate a social dilemma related to the Internet and prepare a report summarizing your findings
and making a policy recommendation for your candidate.

Step 1 - Pick Your Dilemma

Net Neutrality Internet Censorship The Digital Divide

Background: Internet users love
services like streaming movies,
video chatting, or online gaming. All
of this content needs to travel over
the Internet, however, and the
companies that build and maintain
networks are complaining about the
increased demands being placed on
their networks. Your candidate is
hearing more and more about a
debate called “net neutrality” and
would like a more informed opinion
as part of her platform.
Background: While the Internet is
used to share many useful services
and information, there are growing
concerns about the way that the
Internet can be used to spread
damaging information ranging
from national secrets to calls for
violence. Censoring this
information may provide some
people with increased security, but
potentially risks free speech and
the safety of social and political
activists. Your candidate would like
to have a policy that balances these
two concerns in a way that makes
sense for our digital age.
Make a policy increasing safety from
damaging info while allowing social
and political activists to have free
speech and safety.
Background: While technology is
increasingly integrated into daily life,
there are still many who lack access
to the Internet or digital technology.
In rural areas there are challenges
building networks to connect
geographically sparse populations,
but even in cities some groups or
areas have relatively less access to
the Internet or knowledge of how to
use it. Your candidate is worried that
while technology is bringing social
and economic benefits to many,
there are others being left behind.

Core Question: When and how Core Question: When and how Core Question: When and how
should internet service providers be should the government be allowed to should resources be invested to
allowed to treat some kinds of censor or block internet traffic, if at close gaps between those who do
internet traffic different from others? all? and don’t use the Internet?

Impacted Groups Impacted Groups Impacted Groups

● Internet Service Providers (ISP) ● Everyday internet user ● Those lacking internet access
● Internet Content Provider ● Intelligence Agencies ● Internet Service Providers (ISP)
● Everyday internet Users ● Political activists ● Schools and libraries

Sources Sources Sources

● "How the end of net neutrality
could change the internet"
(video): link
● "'Net Neutrality' is ending. Here's
how your internet could change"
(article): link
● "Wikipedia - Net Neutrality": link
● "Free Speech Or Hate Speech:
When Does Online Hate Speech
Become A Real Threat?" (audio
article): link
● "Internet Censorship Explained"
(video): link
● Wikipedia - Internet
Censorship:link
● "Eliminating the Digital Divide"
(video): link
● "Internet/Broadband Fact Sheet"
(article): link
● Wikipedia - the Digital Divide:
link

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Step 2 - Review the One-Pager and Rubric

Review the one pager template and rubric to make sure you understand what you’ll be responsible for creating for this
project and how it’ll be evaluated.

Step 3 - Review the Concept Bank

This concept bank includes the key terms and concepts covered in this unit. Quickly review them before reading your
articles so that you’ll be ready to identify them in your articles. You can also refer to these as you complete your
one-pager.

Protocols / Layers
Physical internet, IP,
TCP, UDP, HTTP,
DNS
Networks Packets and World Wide Web Internet Principles
Fiber optic cable, Routing Web pages, Redundancy, fault
copper wire, wifi, Packet metadata, IP browsers, servers, tolerance, scalability,
router, path, direct addresses, dynamic domain, world wide open protocols
connection, routing, web
bandwidth

Step 4 - Review Your Sources

Review the three sources provided or additional ones you find online. For each source take notes on instances when
your impacted groups are mentioned or technical details are explained.
Source Notes on Impacted Groups Notes on Technical Details

● "Free Speech ● can be threatened through social ● Hate speech is generally protected
Or Hate media like twitter and instagram. under constitution
Speech: ● Hateful antisemtiic rants ● The problem is the hate not the
When Does ● People threatening and hating online platform
Online Hate often put the people physically in ● Controversy of who is labeled as a
Speech danger as well (ex. explosive devices hate group
Become A or shootings). ● Private social media companies like
● Impacted groups are often facebook and twitter can do whatever
Real Threat?"
misinformed by the over emotional they want.
(audio article):
people commenting
link

● Who is talking to whom and what are
● "Internet they talking about?
Censorship ● Uses get info from publishers
Explained" ● Anonymity makes users untraceable
(video): link ● This process works to protect users
before bad information spreads
● The more users on internet, the
harder it is to sensor more and more
info
● Censors take steps to stop info from
being spread that shouldn’t be
● Application layer blocking: keywords
are detected the communication will
be disrupted
● DNS Sinkholing: Sensors can block
users connection at many points
saying “domain does not exist” or
“unsafe content”

● Major Web-services reserve broad ● Content is not removed but access to

● Wikipedia - rights for themselves to remove or
Internet pre-screen content with vague
Censorship:lin reasoning
k ● Publishers and Authors of material are
subject to a variety of consequences
● Some subjects most societies agree
should be censored ex: sites with hate
speech or gambling
it is blocked
● Multiple methods including IP address
blocking, DNS filtering, URL filtering,
network disconnection
● Controversial speakers are removed
from social media platforms also
known as Deplatforming

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● Google was removed from China due
“Censoring the to extreme amounts of censorship
Internet ”Link ● Everyone around the world is
connected through the internet so the
laws of one country will affect the
internet in another
● Censorship is also specific to
individual households
● ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)
advocate prevention of censorship
● Most of what is censored around the
world is to block propaganda against
the state
● GDPR (General Data Protection
Regulation): sets guidelines for
collection and processing of personal
information
● Kid versions of websites to pre-censor
content ex: youtube kids
● VPNs are used to extend privacy and
accessibility

Name(s)_______________________________________________ Period ______ Date ___________________

Internet Dilemma Policy One Pager

To complete this one pager fill in each of the sections below. All text in italics is included to explain how to fill
in the one pager and can be deleted before you submit.

Core Question
When and how should the government be allowed to censor or block internet traffic, if at all?

Impacted Groups
Fill in the table below with your Impacted Groups. You may optionally add new groups or split one of the ones assigned
into smaller subgroups if it will help better explain who’s involved in the dilemma.

Impacted Group and Description Interests, Benefits, and Harms

Group 1: Everyday Internet users / anyone who goes
on their phone or computer, most of the population
● Interests: To access search engines, connect
with others, browse social media, shop ect.
● Benefit: Secure rights for freedom of speech
and expression, censoring inappropriate or
sensitive content
● Harmed: Not always able to access content,
social media accounts can be banned or taken
down

Group 2: Intelligence agencies / Government based ● Gather military or political info for national
groups ex: FBI and CIA security purposes
● Benefit: Protect country from domestic and
international threats without panic from the
public
● Harmed: Must respect freedom of speech and
expression with still protecting the country

Group 3: Political Activists / Social Media accounts ● Educate people of specific causes, solve global
created with the intent to reform the government and and national political issues and gain
change political policies supporters
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● Benefit: Spread important information to many

people, making social media a platform for
more education
● Harmed: Posts can be controversial and may
be taken down or cause accounts to receive
threats physically and on the social media
platform

Technical Background
Explain the technical background necessary to understand the problem. Include:

● Background on layers / protocols / principles of the Internet necessary to understand the dilemma
○ Search engines need to have application layer blocking,
○ DNS sinkholes can be used to prevent access to inappropriate content,
● Use the concept bank on the first page to help brainstorm ideas to include. A strong description will reference
several of these concepts
○ Deplatformizing can be used to censor certain individuals who infringe on the safety of the state with
their posts like hate speech or national threats
○ Direct Connection: keeps social and political activists safe through preventing intercepted connection
● Make sure your descriptions are approachable for your candidate(political activist), who does not have as
strong of a background in the way the Internet works ✓

Recommended Policy Solution

Give a recommendation for what policy or solution your candidate should advocate for. Your solution could be a law
that should be passed or repealed, a government policy, or a technological solution your candidate should
promote.

Recommended Policy: Social Media sites must pre-screen posts for keywords and phrases that are
inappropriate or threaten national security, if posts do not pass the screen they must be edited and sent
back to be screened again before publication. In addition if there are accounts that posts are rejected more
than 15 times in 1 week they will be sent to the authorities for further investigation for possible illegal
activity.

The types of posts that will be rejected are ones with words or phrases that encourage or justify terrorism,
along with posts that have to do with enouraging or justifying illegal activities.

Pros / Who Benefits Cons / Who is Harmed?

This policy will help to limit obscure posts on social
media but will still allow people to express themselves
and respect freedom of speech.
In addition this will create more jobs and help to
stimulate the economy, as well as an increase in national
security.
Some people may object to this policy because it will
take longer to post to social media. Some people may
also believe this is similar to asking for permission to
post even though people can still most almost anything
they want.

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Extensive Convincing Limited Evidence No Evidence

Category
Evidence Evidence

Completed research Research guide All three provided Only one or two No evidence that
guide demonstrates use indicates sources are sources were sources were used
of multiple sources referencing three or referenced referenced
more sources.
provided are
referenced

Interests, benefits, and Interests, benefits, Interests, benefits, Interests, benefits, No description of
harms of all impacted and harms for all and harms of most and harms are impacts on different
groups are clearly groups, including groups are provided either limited, groups
explained possibly additional and accurate. inaccurate, or
groups beyond the incomplete.
required three, are
provided.

Technical details reflect Extensive technical Many technical Few technical No technical details
an accurate and detailed details are provided details are provided details provided. provided
understanding of the demonstrating that accurately Some may be
internet broad reflect how the inaccurate.
understanding of internet works
how the internet
works

Technical details are All technical details Most of the Many of the No technical details
clear and described for a are clear and easily technical details technical details provided
non-technical audience read by a provided can be provided are
non-technical understood by a confusing to a
audience non-technical non-technical
audience audience

A clear policy Policy Policy Policy No policy

recommendation is recommendation is recommendation is recommendation recommendation
provided that is justifiable and clear clear but some provided but is provided
justifiable based on other based on aspects may not disconnected from
information in both build upon other information in
information in the
other sections of information one-pager
one-pager one-pager elsewhere in the
one-pager

Reasonable benefits and Benefits and harms Benefits and harms Benefits and harms No benefits and
harms of the policy to all impacted to most impacted are limited or not harms are provided
choice on different groups are clearly groups are clearly tied to specific
impacted groups are explained explained groups
provided

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