This repository exists as an archive of my CSC 300 final paper.

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The responsibilities of the computer science professional. The ethics of science and the IEEE/ACM Software Engineering Code of Ethics. Quality tradeoffs, software system safety, intellectual property, history of computing and the social implications of computers in the modern world. Applications to ethical dilemmas in computing. Technical presentation methods and practice. 3 lectures, 1 laboratory. Prerequisite: CSC/CPE 357 and junior standing. Crosslisted as CPE/CSC 300.

Ask yourself, what is this reference to a "professional" and why is it part of the course description? Understand this and you have a large part of the class solved.

The class was taught by Clark Turner at California Polytechnic State University during Winter quarter of 2011-2012 Academic Year. The above course description was taken from here.

The United States House of Representatives is in the process of passing the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a bill designed to combat online copyright infringement. Reddit, the 50th most popular website in the United States, was one of 115,000 websites that participated in an online protest against these bills on January 18, 2012. SOPA would require many websites, including Reddit, to filter their content, removing links to copyright infringing websites. If these websites don't comply, they are subject to being prosecuted and shut down.

Was the social news website Reddit ethical in blacking out their website in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act? Proponents of the bill argue that these protests were "publicity stunts" and the arguments presented by these sites were "incomplete and misleading." According the ACM Software Engineering Code of Ethics, Reddit was ethical in the protest in order to warn their users that their service could potentially shut down if SOPA were to pass.

• On Ubuntu, install the texlive-full package.

• Run the build.sh file and the generated PDF and DVI files will be dist/.

• I would not be surprised if there are grammatical, structural, or logical errors in the paper. I will not be accepting/commiting any changes to the content of the paper as its current state reflects my final submission for the class.