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Wikipedia is one of my favorite places to search for information.  It has topics on everything imaginable.  However, the articles on Wikipedia are written by average people, and just about anyone can edit them.  Spamming and destroying articles with profanity and other graffiti are a big problem, but the biggest problem is incorrect information.

The Internet is a device that allows for fast communication and fast access to a great deal of information. In recent years, however, governments have begun to increase surveillance and censorship of information on the Internet. While some well-intentioned nominal censorship is responsible, censoring for political or cultural reasons is a threat to individual freedoms. Is censorship constitutional in a democratic nation that espouses freedom of speech?

There are questions surrounding rights to images/photographs.  Photos on websites are often not owned by the site but by a photographer from a third party. Acknowledgement of the original owner of the image is often not given. Do disclaimers protect your rights for using someone else’s image without consent?

With the creation of Facebook personal information could be easily spread over the internet. While there are settings to protect your personal information there is an ever increasing risk that people could access your personal information. This invasion of privacy could be from a potential employer or a "Facebook stalker". This risk is a huge problem and could lead to bigger problems in the future. Employers are now able to screen potential employee’s Facebook pages and see if there are any discriminative photos or other information.

The implementation of applications into Facebook has widely increased the diversity of information and interaction attainable on the site.  While some users may jump at the chance to download every application imaginable, other users are annoyed at the seemingly endless requests

The web filters used in schools, both public and private, that handle grades K-12 in the United States are not only deficient in performing their function of blocking "bad" sites and allowing "good" sites, but also in their basic underlying purpose: making students safer.

Google has become an excessively large company and is trying to compete in just about every technological sector that exists today.  Unfortunately this can have some severe security repercussions in all of the areas that Google is currently a part of.  Google is trying to implement services that can be used everywhere by anyone at every time.  This co