Freedom, Privacy and Technology
UNST Goals the Exam focuses on:
Critical thinking, ethical analysis and diversity issues are important and claims related to them should be included in your answers. This exam does not require any special legal knowledge. Your answers should focus on ethics, fairness and justice, as you can best argue those principles.
You may apply any readings or viewings you encountered in the class in responding to the exam questions.
Read this article:
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/05/1059828993/data-vaccine-misinformation-trump-counties-covid-death-rate
Read this:
Constitution of United States of America 1789 (rev. 1992) Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Prompt 1
Write in support of a law banning spreading false information on the internet about COVID-19. Identify an ethical framework to support your argument.
Minimum 300 words, maximum 600.
Prompt 2
Write in opposition to the law in Prompt 1.
Minimum 300 words, maximum 600.
