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 citizens personal information is too.
With the seemingly weekly mass shootings at this point, government officials from both sides are suggesting their own causes for these shootings. Some republican figures have put a direct correlation between the increase of violent video games and the increase of mass shootings. Their logic is that peoples actions inside the game are being emulated in real life, except that is just not the case. They speak of "We must stop the glorification of violence in our society"(romano) yet we all know that plenty of people went to see a john wick movie and that some people have the common sense to not go pile as many bodies as they can. It's frustrating that people in power are using a hobby as a scapegoat. In South Korea, they play way more video games than Americans yet there are hardly any cases of mass shootings. It appears to be the most recent scapegoat used before it has been rock and roll and other things enjoyed by the youth. It is just absurd how this is still used as a...
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