Mini-Paper A list of commonly censored online content: bomb-making info, Nazi material, and hate speech, revenge porn, other people's personal information, information useful to terrorists, nudity, and sexuality. In a list of speech that could be used to cause harm, nudity and sexuality are the odd ones out. The writing topic will be online censorship of nudity and sexuality. If a male takes a photo showing his nipples at the beach, he can post it to Instagram or Facebook without issue. If a female posts a photo showing her nipples at the beach, it will be censored by the social media company. Of course, she could get around this in various ways, perhaps by censoring the photo herself with a black bar or by taking a photo of the male nipples, cutting them out, and pasting them over her own "inappropriate" female nipples. This is the #freethenipple campaign, and it is an old story in a new form. Something gets censored, and people devise creative ways to avoid the censorship. You will argue that tech companies should, or should not, censor user-generated content involving nudity or sexuality. In doing so, be sure to touch on the following points: 1. What legal protection is afforded by the first amendment in this context? 2. Who should decide what should be censored? 3. How should they decide? 4. In your view, what types of speech (broadly construed) involving nudity or sexuality should be censored? Mini-Reply Post a reply to the paper after yours in the forum. If your paper is the last one - you got it - reply to the first submission in the forum. The reply should be 300-400 words. Start by briefly thanking the author and saying something positive about the paper you are commenting on. Then respond to the paper. This could be a critique, you could extend the argument, fill in details, or apply one of the ideas in a different context. Finally, end by again saying something positive about the paper and summarizing your comment in a sentence or two. Be respectful! The goal is to learn from the exchange, not to score gotcha points. Ideally, everyone involved grows from back and forth.