Content Outline

 This blog post contains my content outline regarding my video essay about the San Bernardino shooting/FBI backdoor scandal.

 Introduction:

Time to attack the reader's emotions. Let's put the really sad stuff right in front.

Time to address the main points as well: lots of people got killed because we didn't know what criminals were plotting and where they were throughout the day. However, even though 14 people died, 300,000,000 people DEMAND privacy.

 Body Section #1

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What exactly is going on? Why can YOU talk about crime? Have YOU ever been in danger?

This lays the foundation of the whole San Bernardino topic, and how the FBI backdoor fits into the mix. This is the written portion of what I will be including. I'll my prior encounter with a life-threatening situation, and how, despite that, I support the right to privacy, and am strongly against the FBI seeing our inner thoughts and conversations.

Talk about how the event went, how many people died, and why the FBI would benefit from access to the phones the perpetrators used

Recall my personal experience about being in a violent situation... no matter the act, we shall not investigate criminal behavior at the expense of the basic rights that our forefathers bestowed upon us

 Body Section #2

Let's discuss the potential benefits of the proposed FBI backdoor.

Talk about how we would be able to stop criminals before they committed the crimes.
Elliot Rodger Shooting (preventable)

Talk about how regulation protects other aspects of human life.... censorship deemed universally acceptable in movies, books, and even on the internet now
Pros of Censorship, specifically, the benefits of government regulation

The FBI backdoor would allow victims of the family closure.
Parents of Victims in support of backdoor

 

Body Section #3

Let's now discuss the potential shortcomings of the proposed FBI backdoor.

The primary argument I will use against the backdoor will be that it simply isn't possible to create what they are asking for. They want a one-use code that will 'break' into an iPhone. This would NOT be feasible, because iPhone encryption is standard. Once you can hack one, you can hack them all... which is what the FBI wants.
Cook to FBI on technological limitations/implications

It is important to consider the number of people killed. 14 people is a LOT of people that were killed by these gunmen, but it's also very important to consider the people we would endanger if the government stuck its hands in the cookie jar.

Debate: sacrificing one in order to save the others

And when those debates do happen, let’s also make sure they’re not framed by misleading dichotomies like “privacy versus security.” We can’t give up one without presenting a grave threat to the other." -

This quote from WIRED magazine I'll include to note from an expert opinion that security IS privacy, and it's not a trade-off.

Link to article: WIRED: privacy vs. security

 Conclusion:

Drop the ethos bomb. Tell the viewer that it is THEIR duty to make the right decision. Whether that be in the form of an angry tweet, or a letter to a senator, that we, the Americans, do NOT support, or in any WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM publicly condone government invasion of privacy under any extenuating circumstances.