Current Events Week 7

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/10/world/asia/philippine-high-court-suspends-contentious-internet-law.html?ref=world

Today the Philippines High Court suspended a controversial new law that could lead to imprisonment for those who sharing posts on social media such as Twitter and Facebook. This suspension is for 120 days only. The Cyber Crime Prevention Act had 15 petitions for it to be suspended before today. The law had given the government to block any website and track the web history of any web user. I agree with the decision to suspend the law because people should be able to do what they want on the internet with little interference form the government. This affects law in the US because this can be used as a precedent for the government to not monitor the internet as much and can deter the government from using laws such as this.

Magna Carta Project

The Magna Carta is one of the earliest know versions of written law. It was issued in Latin in the year 1215 in England. It was translated into French in 1219 and in the late 13th century it was reissued in modern versions. In 1225 The Magna Carta was passed into law. The purpose of the Magna Carta was to limit the power of the monarchs in England, the Magna Carta was also the first document forced onto a King of England by his subjects. The Magna Carta was part of an open rebellion against the king in 1215. The Magna Carta was forced onto King John by a group of Bishops, Barons, Abbots who were upset with the Kings higher taxes and unsuccessful wars. The purpose of the Magna Carta was to limit the power of the king. The Magna Carta is the foundation for English common law. When the Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights and the Constitution they looked to the Magna Carta for historical precedent on how to write them. Without the Magna Carta our life in the U.S. would probably be very different. The Magna Carta was one of the only documents in the world that listed rights that the people wanted. The founding fathers used this as historical precedent and if the Magna Carta didn't exist they would have had no historical precedent to go by and that means the Constitution would be different and we would probably have a different set of rights as citizens if there was no Magna Carta than if there was one. Without the Magna Carta there would be no 5th amendment which says that No one will be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. By the second half of the 19th century nearly all of the Magna Carta's clauses had been repealed.

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Works Cited

"Featured Document: The Magna Carta." Featured Document: The Magna Carta. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Oct. 2012. <http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/magna_carta/>.

"Magna Carta." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 04 Oct. 2012. <http://www.history.com/topics/magna-carta>.

Magna Carta. N.d. Photograph. Wikipedia. Web. 4 Oct. 2012. <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Magna_Carta.jpg>.

"Magna Carta." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 10 Feb. 2012. Web. 04 Oct. 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta>.

Current Events Week 6

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/technology/foxconn-plant-in-china-closed-after-worker-riot.html?_r=0

In China at the Foxconn plant there was riot. this is the factory that Apple is using for its new iPhone 5's. The riot involved over 1,000 of the 79,000 employees at the factory in Taiyuan. Over 5,000 police officers were called in the stop the riot. The Foxconn plant has been in the news recently for worker suicides and poor working conditions. The whole country of China has also been under scrutiny for its poor working conditions.
I dont really know what the conditions are like for this factory but if the conditions are that bad then these people dont really have to work there. No one is pointing a gun at their heads and telling them to work here. 

Current Events Week 5

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/23/us/texas-amputee-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

In Houston a police officer was called to a nursing home where a schizophrenic double amputee was threatening people with a weapon that turned out to be a pen. The man in the wheelchair was threatening and attempting to attack the police officer after he cornered him and tried to stab him. The police officers partner shot and killed the man. Although some people think that is was unethical to kill the double amputee in a wheelchair I believe that it was ethical because he was trying to protect his partner and himself and trying to stay safe.

Current Events Week 4

On Sunday it was discovered that NFL side judge Brian Stropolo was a big Saints fan and pulled him from the Saints vs. Panthers game that he was about to referee. It was discovered that he was a Saints fan after the NFL looked at his Facebook page. I think this is bad ethics because if he is a Saints fan he should have told the league and not attempt to ref the game.If i was in this position i would not ref this game because it would be a conflict of interest.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/16/sport/nfl-side-judge-pulled/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Current Events Week 3

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/07/rep-jesse-jackson-jr-returns-home-after-treatment

The current events article i read was on Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. For the past several weeks he has been at the hospital due to depression. Many people say he should leave the office he holds and others say he should stay in office in Illinois. He is expected to return to work soon. I chose this article because i feel it relates to what we have been talking about in class recently which is ethics. I do not think what he is doing is ethical because he should either return to work or leave office. If he was being ethical he would resign.

Current Events Week 2

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19485402

Mark Zuckerberg said today that even though his company is worth about 50% less than it was when it came out out on the stock market, he will not sell any of his shares for at least a year. This comes after several other important people at Facebook sold some of there shares. Facebook is now at $17.55 per share, a new all time low for Facebook. Zuckerberg owns 444 million shares of Facebook. He hopes this will provide some security to investers and bring the price of Facebook up.

I think this is good ethics by Mark Zuckerberg, because he is the most recognizable face of the company and he is the most powerful person at Facebook. If he did decide to sell, investers would have absolutely no confidence in him or the company and prices would go even lower. I learned that he did what he had to do to try and help his company even if it may have cost him in the long run depending on what happens to the stock prices