A) My name is Daniel Brinkmoeller. I like sports and I don't care who knows, from shooting hoops, to the Super Bowl.
B) I'm a Senior and a Justice Studies major.
C)I chose this class because I was familiar with the professor and liked her teaching style as well as it seemed like a very interesting class dealing with common issues. It also fulfilled one of my major's requirements.
With technology changing and advancing every single day, it only makes sense that it is now being tied to common every day issues, such as inequality. One technological device that is linked to inequality is the internet. I know that there are several countries in Asia that either place restrictions on the internet, or just ban people from using the internet all together. North Korea for example, is home to perhaps the most internet censorship in the world. Only about one in every 25 people in North Korea has access to the internet. However, even having the internet in North Korea is not as special as it may seem, because it is so heavily censored that most websites are either blocked, or information is changed. I personally have a problem with this as this is just a good way to keep the citizens of North Korea in the dark. They are in the dark about how people all over the world live, and the freedoms that many others experience. Instead they are being kept in the dark and dragged down by their dictator led government. This is precisely the way their oppressive government wants it. By limiting their access to the internet and computers in general, it prevents the citizens from realizing just how oppressed they are compared to many other countries. How can they be upset with their living conditions and lack of opportunities when they have no idea of how the rest of the world even exists? It is very hard for me to believe that this is still going on. Oppressive countries are still preventing their people from having access to technology, and thus preventing them from necessary knowledge. Instead they will never know exactly how other people live, the freedoms they have. They will never know that they are oppressed.
