Week. 8 Confirmation

1. What is my thesis?
To prevent some disasters, Information must be regulated in the internet.


2. What types of source am I using to defend my thesis?
I'll mainly use examples that will emphasize the necessity of regulation. Some experiments, and statistics will be used. 


3. Are my arguments mostly based on evidence, logic or emotion?
My arguments are mostly based on evidence that shows the necessity of the internet regulation. In the part showing that the problems existed when using internet can be solved by the regulation, logic will be used.


Confirmation

People go through many difficulties when using information in internet. If you are an internet user, you must have suffered once: making your internet slow, meeting so much information that makes you confusing are those. One of the examples that the experts indicated as a big problem when using internet is "Information Overload." Information overload is a phenomenon that there are too many information uploaded on the internet so that it takes too much time to access to the page. There are three bad effects of this phenomenon, found by several experiments. First, it can make people feel powerless and anxious, and this was proved by the researchers who found out that multi-taskers have more stress hormones. Second, it can make people less creative. According to the experiment from Havard Business school, if there is less interruptions while working, people will become more creative. Third, it will make workers' productivity lower. According to David Meyer of the University of Michigan, people who complete the same tasks in sequence  are more productive. These bad influences of 'Information Overload' will not only make internet users not show their capacities, but also reduce the competence of individuals, coporations, and even country. If this situation is neglected, the problem will become more serious. 


Also, there are many cases information is misused. Citing 'freedom of expression', the spread of the false personal  information on the internet is prevailing so that lots of people are getting damaged by those information. Displayed examples will show how regulation is urgent:

Someone took one of his colleague's name and set up a Facebook. Some true and some false facts were on the site. Those facts and events seemed to be credible and this played havoc with his personal life and relationships. But Facebook company avoided the responsibility. 

 This happened because of the lack of control. The false information updated by a hacker had to be regulated first, and the company had to take the responsibility of the spread of the false information. However, lack of the regulation and unmethodical system caused one person to have his life go bankrupt.

Case of Jimmy savile : Post-Savile, family men, often with lives of unblemished public success, have been suddenly traduced by anonymous, out-of-the-blue allegations from 20, 30 or 40 years ago. Because of completely unrelated media stories, about completely unrelated people, mainly completely unrelated circumstances, and unrelated crimes. Based on untested historical information, presumably without a scrap of forensics or contemporaneous medical examinations. 

This is the case of celebrity, Jimmy Savile, a popular British MC. After he suddenly met with rumor that he raped the children, of course, he lost his job and his reputation was damaged and according to one close to Savile, he couldn't be related with those rumors. There are many celebrities who are suffering from their false personal information on the internet as the online communication has been growing larger. In the case of Korea, those rumors that are called 'Jjirasi' state about many false scandals. Lots of Korean celebrities are stressed out from these rumors and the critics who attack them with no specific evidence. It can be frequently seen that they accuse people of spreading false information and even, we can see some celebrities selecting suicide. Of course, this can happen in the case of ordinary citizen. The false information with no evidence or reason should be regulated before the problem grows much bigger. 


Lastly, prevailing violent information is another reason why the information on the internet should be regulated. The violent information is easily exposed to the people today and it is a moment that those information can grow into a violent behavior in people. For example, 'The Nuremburg Files', the web site which advocates the murder of abortion doctors, listed the names and addresses of the abortion doctors. This kind of information could provoke a reader to action, and could be a positive reinforcement for negative behavior.  Fortunately, this web-site was sent to the U.S court and was close, but here is an example that violent information became a reality. The students, named Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris , walked into their high school and murdered 12 of their classmates, one teacher, and wounded 23, before killing themselves. These students ,who enjoyed the violent video game, once contacted with the website posting all of the negative information, including how to make pipe bombs. They also said that their purpose for murdering was to "kill and injure as many of you as I can", the words from one website posting. The violent information made the students more confusing between the game and the reality and it seems that the internet is to blame for the students' murdering. Moreover, one of the biggest reasons for the increase of sexual abuse is that internet users are exposed to unwanted sexual information, such as sexual solicitation, pornography, etc.