Graphic Organizer - Reader Response

Main Topic Focus/Thesis Statement: 

(Level I Controlling Ideas)

The expansion of U.S technological sovereignty globally, using powerful strategies has to be restricted; before it becomes very hard for other nations to undo it.

First Supporting Idea -

U.S has breached internet privacy
Supporting Ideas -  
- It has or aims to claim data stored in other nations as long as it is handled by American companies.

- It promotes

- E.g. form the article – disagreement between the Microsoft and the U.S government upon retrieving an email from the server in Ireland
Evaluation/Reaction - 
- Privacy is considered as a basic human right. Protection of one's information is part of the right.  

- U.S has gone beyond the limits.

Second Supporting 

Idea –

More time given, more powerful the U.S technological regime might become.
Supporting Ideas -  
 -Huge tech. Giants like Google and Microsoft were the first few ones. They seem to be more advantageous as they develop themselves exponentially while new ones in other nations slowly come up.
 - They create great services that cannot be easily replaced by another.

     Evaluation/Reaction - 
- As per the law of nature, only the powerful ones survive in the long run. 

- Knowing this fact, other nations should take actions like China and Russia to compete with the U.S 

Third Supporting Idea –

U.s might be able to expand its influence into politics
Supporting Ideas -  
- Just like how a nation control the information their citizens have access to, the U.S might  do it globally.

- I believe, as the U.S becomes powerful it can use the data or alter it accordingly.

- It can deny the access of information to   the country it has retrieved it from, without the country’s acknowledgement.
Evaluation/Reaction - 
- The internet plays a huge role in Politics, like in  mobilizing people or to maintain one's popularity.

- If the U.S has such a powerful tool in its hands, it can control politics across the globe