Joseph Flores
04/10/2024

Many of us sometimes don’t realize that some things that seem relatively harmless are actually in
the eyes of the law considered and thus we are committing a crime. From the article “11 Illegal
Things You Unknowingly Do on the Internet” by Andriy Slynchuk, the five illegal things that
seemed the most serious to me were Collecting information about Children, Illegal Searches
on the Internet, Faking Your Identity Online, Bullying and Trolling, and Using other
Peoples internet. The first one I consider the worst in terms of its seriousness, no company in
my opinion needs to collect information about children. That’s just greed in my eyes, profit over
morality is never good in my eyes. For companies to stoop so low to the point where they need to
collect information on children to make a profit off of them is through the form of surveys etc.
Illegal searches seem pretty serious to me as well, it is well known that although we have made
strides in regulating the internet and what can and can’t be posted on, by far and large the
internet is really an unruly place that has anything you could look for and find. This can include
how to make a bomb, making threats towards the president, or even child pornography. Using
someone else’s internet can at first be considered harmless but at the end of the day you’re
stealing someone else’s resource that they paid with their own hard earned money, not only but
the security risks are major. The other illegal actions on my top five are the most obvious. These
have crimes that can affect people directly and cause them mental and physical harm. Like
faking your identity can put people at risk because you could be posing as someone and ruining
their life, this can be connected to cyber bullying because a lot of the times in these cases, the
bully is posing as their victim making their life a living hell.