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Grade 11
💻Digital Literacy
Digital Rights Movements
Examine digital rights movements — their history, key issues, and the ongoing struggle for rights in the digital environment.
13 min 3 quiz questions Grade 11
Digital Rights Are Civil Rights
The rights we exercise online — free expression, privacy, access to information — are extensions of fundamental civil rights. Digital rights movements fight to protect these rights in the digital environment.
Key Digital Rights Issues
- Net neutrality: The principle that internet service providers should treat all internet traffic equally
- Encryption rights: The right to use strong encryption to protect communications
- Right to be forgotten: The right to request removal of personal information from search results
- Digital due process: The right to legal protections for digital communications
- Algorithmic accountability: The right to explanation and appeal for algorithmic decisions
- Digital access: The right to affordable, reliable internet access
Net Neutrality:The principle that internet service providers should treat all internet traffic equally, without discriminating based on source, destination, or content type.
Digital Rights Organizations
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): Defends civil liberties in the digital world
- Access Now: Defends digital rights of users globally
- Fight for the Future: Campaigns for net neutrality and digital rights
- Center for Democracy and Technology: Policy advocacy for digital rights
- Privacy International: Investigates and challenges government surveillance
The SOPA/PIPA Battle
In 2012, proposed legislation (SOPA/PIPA) that would have enabled broad internet censorship in the name of copyright protection was defeated after a massive online protest — including Wikipedia going dark for a day. This demonstrated the power of digital rights activism.
Right to Be Forgotten:A legal right, established in EU law, to request that search engines remove links to personal information that is outdated, irrelevant, or no longer necessary.
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3 questions · Grade 11 level