With Edward Snowden having released confidential information to the media, which unintentionally released to the public, we now have to question whether this is ethically correct. Even though his intention is to raise awareness of what NSA have been doing till date, we think that this should not be the way to inform the public. If we put ourselves in Edward Snowden’s shoes, with all the confidential information that we have on our hands right now, we will be thinking “Who controls the people in control
Some argue that Edward Snowden acted out of love for his country and that he is a whistleblower who revealed wrongdoing by our government and believed that the people had the right to know what the government was up to in order to uphold their rights. However, others argue that his act of revealing government secrets was traitorous and what he did was in fact extremely criminal. In the eyes of Aristotle, a good citizen is a person that honors the constitution and its rights. Meanwhile a good man
The Party is basically the government of Oceania. These higher powers are able to do things like put cameras in people’s homes, arrest them for non-patriotic behavior or behavior that is demolishing towards The Party and even controlling the daily activities of the lives of the citizens. Any rebellious activity towards the party is
In order to be able to characterize morally the whole event that concerns Edward Snowden and the NSA Global spying apparatus, we need to examine closely the ethical theories of consequentialism and deontology. These philosophical terms conflict with each other, something that we will be able to observe in this particular essay, since both theories offer different interpretations on what is considered moral and different suggestions on how to characterize Snowden’s case, as far as morality is concerned
effort” and that was all they did. Their lives were dominated by the production of leadies and nothing else. That was their main purpose, their reason for living; of course, they didn’t know that. The Tankers thought they were helping the war effort in order to go back to the surface at some point. They same thing is occurring with American people, except it’s just a little less subtle than
section 107 of US copyrights law7, which defines a four-factor test for fair use. In addition to using the four-factor test, my arguments draw on best practices in fair use. 1.1 Potential Fact Situation Citizenfour discusses the life of exiled Edward Snowden, who disclosed confidential information from the National Security Agency. The documentary incorporated a clip showing Democratic Congressman, Hank Johnson questioning the former NSA Director, Keith
Many people, along with Ed Snowden himself, believed what he could do was clearly a violation of the law; it defiled the fourth and fifth Amendments to the Constitution of his country, Article twelve of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and numerous statutes and treaties which forbid such systems of massive, pervasive surveillance. Once word got out though, everything was out of order, and people were furious. Hence, it actually did more harm than
surveillance”(206). Today people are under constant observation from the watchful eyes of high ranking organizations such as the NSA. This was all an assumption until classified documents were released to the public by Edward Snowden regarding NSA monitoring, brought validity to what was once an assumption(Shah). This introduced an entirely new dynamic to how people lived their lives as prior to this there were only security cameras in public spaces utilized to deter crime. With the release of this
tradition” into a nature that made the song simply, but while emotionally and genuinely impacting the listener in a positive way (PBS.org). What made Ellington’s contributions so appreciated and praised was that he was able to make the music of Jazz into just as well as a noble, and prestigious art in comparison to classical music, or other traditional forms of