Post date: Jan 5, 2011 1:11:52 PM
Assignment name: Power and Wikileaks.
If you would like to discuss this in pairs or small groups, just add everyone's name to the document that you share with me. (you can have someone email this or share a google doc)(let me know if you need help w/ this step) work4pregon@gmail.com
1. Should the Wikileaks website be taken down?
2. If it is allowed to exist, what limitations (if any) should governments place on the kind of content that can be posted?
3. Do you think Wikileaks content should be protected by the First Amendment?
(side note… Assange is not a US citizen, Wikileaks servers not in the US… does that matter?)
This issue was framed in the discussion of power.
after reading TCI sections 1.1 &1.2
4. Define power:
5. Identify and briefly describe 3 ways that governments have power over citizens.
6. Identify and briefly describe 3 ways that citizens have power over governments.