Traviers Herndon
I really should have control of what’s going on in my own mind. Subliminal advertising is now being used and essentially violating people’s minds for profit. Highly focused sound is targeted at unsuspected people that walk by certain billboards. The sound is transmitted to the skull, which acts like a speaker and plays an advertisement that only the targeted person can hear. I can’t believe this new way of advertising is legal. In the pod cast, it even said that it scared a person that was being paid to answer questions about the advertisement. Inside the head and or mind is one of the last places that we as people should expect to be violated of personal sanctity. I agree with the civil rights of the mind movement because these advertisements do intrude the cognitive liberties of a person. One way that privacy is defined by Lessig in Code is protection against unreasonable and burdensome intrusion. It is almost a scary thought to know that these advertisements intrude your head and you are forced to listen and not be able to cover your ears because your body is used as the device for making noise. There should be no justification to impede a person’s mind without consent, especially for impersonal reasons such as advertising. The pod cast stated that technology is being developed faster than the update on legal, moral and ethical ways of thinking about the new technology. This is what I think is standing problem. There should be some source of government to seek approval of new ideas in technology that significantly chances the world as we know it because ideas such as this one is really something, if approved, that people would have to learn to cope with. I am still in disbelief that mind is now subject to be impeded without approval.
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2 comments:
written by Aizat.
The author did mention about how Lessig defined privacy in Code. Privacy is a protection against unreasonable and burdensome intrusion. A long time ago, when the constitution was built, the framers regarded the unreasonable and burdensome intrusion as some kind of actions in the form of physical mean. The framers are unable to imagine what kind of intrusion would be present today whether it is going to stay quite the same or change drastically following the evolution of time. Well, the answer to that question is super clear. A massive development in the technological innovations throughout centuries has created a new superior form of intrusion where this condition exceeds what constitution able to protect. An explicit example is given by the author to present this new becoming threat. What should be done to encounter this event? Some people may think, "ahh, just forget about it. There is nothing more that we can do." Well, there are lots more that we can actually do to oppose these scary conditions. We just need our full effort and time to think of the best solutions that we can derive. We don't want our privacy to be torn off easily without even trying to fight this new dangerous threat.
I understand your argument on this issue, and I too believe that no one should be allowed to impede on a person without their consent. My question is this: Do you not have control over your own actions? I don’t believe that advertisements can be categorized as something that impedes without consent; they are just a part of our world’s everyday life. Just because you hear or see an advertisement, it doesn’t mean that you have to purchase the item being sold. Advertising is an extremely important industry especially in the United States. Every year companies spend millions of dollars for one 30 second commercial in the Super Bowl. To outlaw certain advertisements because they “impede” is ludicrous. The human brain allows us to see or hear things and then process them in our thoughts. From there, we are free to make decisions based on these thoughts and no can make these decisions except for you.
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