This is the way that companies are bypassing the regulations and agreements. Most users won’t read the agreements word by word, so they could put in ambiguous agreements into rules and use them as a buffer when conflicts arise. When someone thinks that a feature doesn’t meet their expectations, the unclear rules can be used to protect the service provider.

Although a general regulation like this is not likely to protect the usage of data well in action, since the data holders can use a variety of processes to bypass the regulations (like oversea companies), it’s much better than no systematic regulation, since it provides a framework of law that can be cited. Also, I really appreciate the idea of “right to be forgotten”, since it guarantees the prescence of a “digital shredder” for sensitive but short-term data. It also grants users the right to actively erase data according to their will.

It's another vivid example of "reasonable" data leakage, by which a person's privacy can be leaked by assesing public and not sensitive data associated with the person. Many people might think that if no direct private information is leaked, then their identities could not be acquired without authorization, but that's not the case with large data assesment tools and ML models. It brings us a kind of eerie reality: if a individual is on the Internet and is leaving any personal data, the individual is immediately susceptible to identity leakage.

It's generally accurate with details inaccurate. For example, the age and education categories are accurate, and the girlfriend category is inaccurate. It actually makes me reassured seeing google's user portrait of me since I'm aware of the data collected by Google and I have some ideas about what information is collected and how they are used, and the portrait matches my assumption. From my search histories it's easy to deduce that I'm constanty learning college-grade stuff, and since I searched a lot about outdoor backpacks, photgraphy accessories, and drones, it's reasonable to assume that I have medium-high income and outdoor hobbies.

This is such a classic trolling, I've seen it for at least 3 times in different videos about Internet history and news history. SInce it's performed by an official TV media, it's often been uses as an open-ended topic about trolling and public knowledge, media responsibility, respect, etc. But let alone all of these serious topic, it really was a hilarious and extraodinarily successful trolling that's ever been done.

I've seen a lot examples of both bad and good aplication of trolling. It was used to challenge discriminations and deliver encourages, like the ice bucket challenge and the "we are all XXX" protests, but what we have deeper impressions are the bad and chaotic trollings that doesn't make sense or is offensive, such as the reddit and forum trolling that targets less vigilant individuals and even tries to control them in real life. Also, there are weird and funny trollings that are so well known and classic that they become a cultural icon, like the Rick Astely trolling that appears everywhere with a superlink, QR code or any kinds of id or website.

The contrasts between hate & love of Anne Hathaway and Jennifer Lawrence and between Jennifer Lawrence at 2013 Oscar and later at activities reminds us of how fragile the standards of "authenticity" is, and how weak the connection is between authenticity and real life. It's easy to see that what public thinks is authentic is just things that appeals to public's cognition of authentic, like tripping over and saying informal expressions, while being real and true doesn't necessarily include these behaviors. In short, the longing for authenticity is another distorted longing disguised as "being real", just like the cliche longings for beauty, fashion and strongness.

Now with the rising of AI generated contents getting more and more popular and sponsored, the meaning behind authenticity has dropped once more. As long as I know, people start to consider contents authentic if it's not made by AI, regardless of the content itself. There is a popular thought that AIGC contents are one grade lower than human created contents, no matter what the human created content is. This currently shifting meaning of autheticity gives me mixed feelings of acknowledgement and sigh.

I've heard of and learned about 4chan and related forums for a few years, and I always refer to it as a representative of the dark and chaotic side of the Internet. As proposed here, it has hardly any rules and organization, and posts and topics here don't follow a certain pattern. Many most terrible and shocking incidents that youtubers would make videos about happened in or because of 4chan. But I don't think banning or censoring 4chan is a good idea, since it's one of the rendezvous point and containing place for the darkest thoughts on the Internet. It's just a gray spot between daily Internet and dark web.

It feels special to browse through the history of a technology that we are using so widely today everywhere. When I learn about the technology developments of the Internet, I always can't help wondering about how the predecessors figured out the ways to solve weird and complicated problems and finally forged the Internet into something we are familiar with today.

It’s actually a bit scary to think about it, since I realize that I’m practicing pernicious ignorance all the time. From turning the stereo up for my own convenience to crossing the wide crossroads on University Way, I’m selectively sieve out data that’s not convenient to me, like my roommate’s reaction (even if he might won’t care) and the possibility of getting hit by a car (even if it’s not likely). But on the other hand, every single moral standard omits at least one aspect of “moral data”. For example, the Aztec standards emphasized the importance of helping each others while doesn’t care so much about individual feeling, while the natural rights standard emphasized personal rights but omits the impact to larger groups and society.

I’ve first learned about this kind of number in high school, and gave me the expression of abstract and difficult. It’s a surprise to see it get applied in coding and storing data. I cannot fully understand the concept of complex numbers, but from the idea that it can be solutions to equations that don’t have real number solutions, it’s clear that complex numbers can broaden computers’ capability of handling data.

For the Bluesky bots we are using, the bots can complete the action of creating a post and sending it to the public in no time and no cooldown, which a normal person definitely could not do. When running this bot, the majority of responsibilities should be on the content creators, which is myself and other students in this class's content; and a smaller portion of the responsibility goes to its creators and maintainers, which is the professor and TAs.

I've watched news featuring similar click farms, but these direct images give me a really direct and close view of a real click farm. The opinions from the click farm workers make me realized that instead of an underdeveloped gray industry, click farms has become a mature line of industry with upper stream parts providers and downstream customers. This means that it's impossible to eradicate this kind of behaviors and nothing we view online is 100% certified authentic, especially for main platform content, which is scary when thinking.

Someone holding an Aztec virtue might think that the developers are responsible in adding features that make adding alt-textsx easier, since people needs to support each others according to Aztex virtues, and providing more convenience towards blind people is also a kind of supporting. While people holding natural rights belief might think that developers should add alt-text features so that blind people can "see" the same things normal people can see, since they are all born equal and have the same rights.

To me, this is closer to the prevailing ethic standards now. We act in accordance to the virtues we believe in and gain positive feelings from doing so, and the feeling also reinforce back our believe in the virtues.

Although the Confucianism emphasized the importance of good moral standards, politeness, and the will to serve the society well for a person, it also includes lots of constrictive standards, like the absolute obeyance of children to father and officers to emperor. It also has many standards that are not applicable today, like the apparent differentiation of men and women in social roles. (man should go out and change the world, and women should stay home and raise the kids) Although it encourages many positive qualities, Confucianism is nothing more than a highly effective ethic standard that allows solid governance of emperors and segregation of societies.