Is betting a form of communication and should students be prevented from using this Platform?

One of the biggest senses of pride is showing love for your college football team whether you are a current student, employee of the University, or an alumni. If you are of the legal age to bet for them, should a college have the power to mute this form of financial support if the better is of legal age?

It questions who has the authority at the end of the day the NCAA or the University administration. The inconsistency between the right to pay athletes in some states and now the prevention of betting on sports per college is complicating the rights from player to player and fan to fan. Betting is a symbol of support and preventing fans of legal age from participating seems unjustified. Although the  rule has not been officially passed, I believe this is a rule that should either be unanomous made by the NCAA. Would these professors or students have the right to vote for other colleges just not their own?

The new policy includes prevention of online and in-person betting 

- The University offered no specific reasoning for this ban, but urged faculty and students to cease betting immediately.

- If this sanction was to pass and other colleges adopted this policy, it could significantly impact the gambling marketplace

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/us/data-privacy-fbi.html

Facebook & Cambridge Analytica: Pillow Talk

There has been a complete misuse, abuse, and lack of integrity on Facebook's part in terms of holding up their end of the deal in their user-agreement terms. Tens of millions of users' private data has been put at risk, making facebook less of a safe space for people to engage in, and reap the networking benefits of social media altogether. Instead, now, people have to worry about a company such as Facebook, with such a gargantuan database in terms of user personal info, data, etc, selling off their personal information for monetary gain, rather than prioritizing their users' safety and peace of mind. Not only was this shocking news to most people, but the news felt more like a stab in the gut after it was revealed that Facebook executives have known about this misuse of information/resources since 2015. For four years. 

"The document, a recordof correspondence among Facebook employees, suggests both the SEC and Zuckerberg are right: Employees requested an investigation and began an investigation into "possible 'scraping"' in September. But they did not learn that Kogan had sold the data to Cambridge Analytica and violated Facebook policy until the story went public in December 2015."

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/newly-released-messages-reveal-when-facebook-first-knew-about-cambridge-n1045861