Jason's current events blog

The #metoo movement has been a polarizing movement over the past two and a half years since it gained major steam in 2017. The phrase #metoo comes form victims of sexual assault telling stories of their assaults and listeners realizing they too have been assaulted. Then those listeners telling their own stories of sexual assault.  The movement has touched many different fields and is not unique to any small sect of work or people. The sports industry with Larry Nassar, entertainment with Bill Cosby, media with Matt Lauer and politics with Al Franken. It's great that people are speaking out and holding their assaulters accountable and responsible for the actions/behaviors. There has been so much outpour and stories coming out and it's unfortunate for the people with real experiences of assault when others come out with fabricated ones. One of the founders of the French #metoo movement Sandra Muller is paying thousands of dollars in defamation because of her accusation that a man

Each week in recent years it seems as though personal accounts, data, web traffic, private information, etc are being leaked. One only needs to look at places such as facebook, target or even and some android phones. This week victims of an information leak are said to be nearly every person in Ecuador which is around twenty million citizens including seven million minors. The breach was sourced back to an unsecured server in Miami leaking information such as "full names, date, and place of birth, home and email addresses, national identification numbers and taxpayer numbers, employment information, and more."(yeung), along with financial information. Since the breach, the government is in a mad rush to address and fix the breach and have detained the believed suspect. The thing that is unnerving about leaks and breaches like these is that once the information is out there it will never be forgotten, what is done can never be taken back, the internet is forever and now those

To be a college athlete, the athlete must remain as an amateur to maintain eligibility to compete at the collegiate level and represent their school.  There are thousands of college athletes that could make an extra chunk of change for themselves if they were able to profit off their athletic abilities. The reason for having such amateurism rules is an effort to maintain fairness across college athletics. However, when these rules were written more than 100 years ago there were not multibillion-dollar industries profiting off these amateurs. There is a new law being talked about and pushed in California to allow student-athletes to receive compensation and profit off of any use of their likeness by their university, conference, region and the NCAA. The bill is being pushed by Senator Nancy Skinner and is not meant to target the majority of college athletes who would have a minimal influence on revenue but on those who do. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-09-10/college-athle