1. Anonymous Speech & Reading
LaRue Pierce
Brenda Jorcilien
Lucas Schafer
Jordan McCall

2. What is Anonymity?

3. The condition of being anonymous

4. First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
What does it say?

6. Freedom of Speech (Caveman style)

7. Internet Troll

8. Does free speech give us the right to anonymously troll strangers?

9. Anonymity on the Internet

10. Benjamin Franklin a.k.a. “Silence DoGood”
Mrs. Silence Dogood was a pen name used by Ben Franklin to get his worked published in the New England Courant, which was a newspaper founded and published by his brother, James Franklin.
He wrote around 14 letters and it was all in disguised handwriting that way no one ever had the chance of figuring out what he was up to.

11. Ben Franklin cont.
Ben Franklin created an entire made up background of his character that was seen in his first letter submitted to the paper.
Why do you think it was necessary for him to create a whole new identity rather than just using a different name?

12. Ben Franklin cont.

13. Voting

14. Secret Ballots
Basically, it means that a voter’s choices in an election are private.
Secret ballots are included in many treaties and international agreements.
Many ways to do secret ballots
Writing on a piece of paper
Bubbling in the candidate on a ballot
Checking a box next to the candidate’s name on a ballot
Voting booths help ensure privacy

15. History of Secret Ballots
In ancient Greece, secrets ballots would be used when voting on if someone is a threat to the city or country. If found to be a threat, they would be banished from Athens for ten years.
Secret ballots were also used in ancient Rome.
Secret ballots in the United States first started using secret ballots after the presidential election. The first city to use the secret ballot was Louisville. However, the last state to completely adopt the secret ballot was Kentucky. They did so in The first president to be elected completely under the secret ballot was Grover Cleveland. He was elected in 1892.

16. Importance of Secret Ballots
Are secret ballots important? Why or why not?

17. Social Media

18. Do you know who you’re talking to? Maybe not

19. Anonymous Social Media
Ask.fm
Yik Yak
Twitter
Whisper
Secret
Wut
Popcorn Messaging
Rumr
Social Number
Confide
Sneeky
Reddit
Spring.me
Truth

20. Examples of non-anonymous sites
Facebook – collects and sells user information to third parties, informs users about friend activities such as likes, shares, comments, and posts, and prohibits you from creating fake accounts.
Netflix – keeps track of everything that you watch and groups it into a category entitled “Recently Watched.”
Spotify – music software that informs users what their friends are listening to.
Amazon Kindle – reading software that keeps track of everything you’ve read.

21. Wikipedia (what a headache!)
Anyone, members and non- members, can change information which causes Wikipedia to lose it’s credibility.

22. Social Media Questions
Do you really need to be known while using social media?
What’s the purpose of a username?
What effect does social media have on social interactions?
Is there really such a thing as being completely anonymous on social media?
Does being anonymous on social media really make a person feel free?
What causes us to have to be anonymous on social media?
Is there value in reading content anonymously?

23. Edward Snowden
Hero or traitor?

24. Edward Snowden
He blew the whistle on the NSA’s spying and the PRISM program.
He revealed to journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras in Hong Kong that the NSA has been spying on US citizens and also people around the world.
Many people consider Snowden to be a hero, but others call him a traitor.
A petition was made on whitehouse.gov calling for him to be pardoned. It met the 100,000 signature requirement for a response but the government never responded to the petition.

25. PRISM
Began in 2007
NSA program that collects internet communications of foreign nationals.
Internet companies have to give up any data that matches court-approved search terms.
It is the number one source of intelligence for the NSA
Do you think this program is good or bad? Why?

26. “I am Spartacus!”