Darius Burks

 Journal 14

I believe the 5 most serious violations that internet users do that are illegal are bullying and trolling, faking your identity online, illegal searches on the internet, using copyrighted images, and recording a VoIP call without consent. Bullying can lead people into stressful situations in their life that is not needed. It can also lead them to do acts that can cause harm to themselves. Faking your identity can lead to people believing information that they think is correct. Other people could believe you are providing them with important information, and you are not who you say you are. This also falls into the trolling category. Having free will on the internet is a good and bad thing. People who use the internet for mischievous purposes have access to all type of information. It can get dangerous if sensitive information is presented to the wrong group of people with bad intentions. Having copyrighted images is harmful for those who either worked hard to create them just for you to take them and call them your own or you use them in a way that it was not intended for. Finally, recording a call without the other person’s consent is very illegal because there could be information that was expressed between each other that did not need to be released or recorded for the public’s findings. It’s a broken of trust.