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Article 2: "A saucy app knows China's Taste in news, the censors are worried"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/business/china-toutiao-censorship.html
Summary: China demands an app be shut down for accusations of "Causing a negative impact on public opinion online" and other things I'm not sure I can mention in school. The app's parent company took down the site/ temporarily suspended accounts of about 1,100 bloggers on that site.

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Article 1:"Education As A Path To Conformity"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/world/asia/27iht-letter.html?scrlybrkr=dea15d1e
Summary: China is using it's education system to conform their students into average people. China does not want them to exceed to become a genius and limiting their education
. China doesn't ever ask their citizens what they want either therefore the citizens of China cannot pursue passions. They are pretty much forced into laboring positions. China is luckily changing to become more democratic and less communist, but progress is extremely slow.

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"Is google making us stupid?"
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/
The article talks about how dependent we are now of technology that it hasb made researching different and easier than before. Many now believe that it is too much to read to find answers and they'd rather skim through paragraphs instead of reading so technology has created a bad habit to society where we're so dependent for answers now instead of looking for them.

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1) John Neer

2) "Why Are Teens Easting Tide Pods? An 18th Century Prison Design Might Explain It" from NewsWeek. January 26, 2018 by Harry T. Dyer.

3) http://www.newsweek.com/why-teens-eating-tide-pods-18th-century-prison-might-explain-792172

4) This article discusses the prison experiment theory that people will police themselves if they believe someone is watching. With the Tide Pod Challenge, and other supid pranks and videos being posted on social media, the teenagers are choosing to watch and participate because they think that makes them cool ,normal. The ones who come up with the ideas originally do it because they want to be watched by as many people as they can. The same can be said for people wanting to emulate the celebrities, TV personalities, Sports Stars. Everyone sees them and set high goals and expectations to try and be like them,. Even though some of these goals are unattainable. The one common factor is that all of this became possible thanks to the new technology of smart phones and social media. This is the avenue for mass effect and idealism for conformity to what people believe should be normal thanks to what they see.

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1) John Neer

2) "The Battle For Power Over the Internet" from The Atlantic. October 24, 2013

3) https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/the-battle-for-power-on-the-internet/280824/

4) This article discusses how the government and technological corporations, sometimes working with each other, control what technological devices we have to use, what information is available, and how these devices are maintained. Now that we use more devices such as smart phones, iPads, Chromebooks, and kindles, it is easier for corporations to control because they control when updates are sent out to each device, and when security programs are updated. This also limits which operating systems on each of our devices we can use, since each phone is maintained by a different corporation. Even our pictures  and documents are now being stored on company clouds in order to give us more storage capability. This allows for easier tracking by companies, and by the government. Unfortunately, only a small percentage on the population has the technical skills to get around this, so the vast majority of us go ahead and accept this as our fate, fall in line, buy the newest phones and devices, do the updates at they get sent to us, without even giving it a second thought. We are conforming, without even being forced to. We do it because it is just easier.

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"The Future of Internet Freedom"
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/12/opinion/the-future-of-internet-freedom.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=E49C45183AE997DE69D69264716451B1&gwt=pay&assetType=opinion
This article explains how censorship is normal in most countries and how America could be heading there soon. The first example mentions the totalitarian government in Russia and how they have established a new law called Decree 72. This law makes it illegal to digitally distribute content that opposes the government. It also explains how in Pakistan popular sites are slowly being taken down to secure "internet safety"  Also in the US, how the government can monitor and track everything we are doing.

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"How Silicon Valley Is Erasing Your individuality"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/how-silicon-valley-is-erasing-your-individuality/2017/09/08/a100010a-937c-11e7-aace-04b862b2b3f3_story.html?utm_term=.3e6a34e6527f
This article talks about the intentions of big tech giants like google and facebook. These companies want to make your everyday actions much easier. Many companies realized how many people visit these sites a day and rushed to make advertisements that worked well on these sites. What happened was the same news was duplicated over and over again. The dangerous thing about these big companies is that they will eventually use their dominance to squash the diversity of opinion and taste.

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"A prestigious research publisher gives in to China’s censorship "
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-prestigious-research-publisher-gives-into-chinas-censorship/2017/11/04/4e4ff9de-c0c6-11e7-959c-fe2b598d8c00_story.html?utm_term=.165e56bb1f5d
The article talks about how China does not cooperate with companies. China tempts to leave things out and does not let the people know about specific stuff. Some companies are leaving because they do not agree with what China is doing. The companies want China to tell the people the truth about the world.

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"Apple Is Forcing Ubiquity And Conformity On Consumers" From Forbes.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/theopriestley/2015/07/04/apple-is-forcing-ubiquity-and-conformity-on-consumers/#25550ca54b76
In this article it talks about how Apple, the world's number 1 technology company is

Is forcing ubiquity And conformity on consumers. How, well because they are only creating smartphones and tablets and they appear almost everywhere you go. It’s destroying the perception of brand value and consumer choice. For example Apple creates the Apple Watch again and again and they try to innovate but instead they create a one-device-fits-all smartwatch. But again, you are forced to conform to using the Apple society of tech in order for it to work.

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Conformity and the Crowd

https://hbr.org/2013/07/conformity-and-the-crowd
Over the past decade, companies have began to use online ordering capabilities to develop a powerful marketing tool “mass customization”. For example, Nike, Porsche, and Ford all give consumers the ability to choose colors and other options and opinions. According to the article they got data and 149 consumers who had designed a car asked a social media friend for feedback before finalizing the order, they also studied 684 customers who had designed a car without getting any feedback. They found out from the data that the customers who got feedback tended to modify their configurations in order to conform to it. Social media sharing can play an important role in increasing brand awareness and well knowing.

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"As technology gets better, will society get worse?"
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/as-technology-gets-better-will-society-get-worse
In the article "As technology gets better, will society get worse?" by Tim Wu on The New Yorker magazine, it talks about how much every individual of Oji-Cree once lived their lives depending on themselves for survival up north of cold Canada located just south from the Hudson Bay. For decades they lived all their lives the same, working hard everyday, getting food, not really depending on technology. After new technologies was introduced to the Oji-Cree people in the sixties, there was a drastic change within the way they lived. They all adapted to depending on technology which lead to health issues and more problems for the Oji-Cree people. The way they adapted to technology so fast was shocking despite the fact that it usually takes society time to adjust to new technologies. People started to follow this new way of life instead of continuing their old natural way of living just how every society ends up being conformed by new adjustments, new trends, new ways of life.

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"Vietnam Wants to Control Social Media? Too Late"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/opinion/vietnam-social-media-china.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FInternet%20Censorship%20in%20China&action=click&contentCollection=world&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=6&pgtype=collection
This article talks about how Vietnam wants to start controlling social media. Out of the 96 million people that live there, about 56 million have active facebook accounts. Vietnam did try and block facebook back in 2009 by ordering major local service providers not to carry it but the government never put up a firewall since they were afraid it would drive out e-commerce. Vietnam did deploy public opinion shapers and started a website where people could report ill intended and toxic content from ads for contraband all the way to state secrets. Authorities want to carry this along further but they are too late.

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"The Terrifying power of Internet Censors"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/opinion/cloudflare-daily-stormer-charlottesville.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=CE5046FA77249AE38C9E4E4539B6EC03&gwt=pay&assetType=opinion
This Article is about a website called the Daily Stormer that posted an offensive story online, mocking an incident where a man drove a car into a crowd, killing a counter-demonstrator. This led to it's domain registrar GoDaddy, to end The Daily Stormer's service, dropping them as a client. The Daily Stormer was taken off in a form of censorship to the internet, while they continue to block and take down other websites online. With the argument that the people are losing their freedom of speech and the press.

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"Propaganda and Censorship Are Reaching Fever Pitch on the Eve of China's Big Leadership Reshuffle"
http://time.com/4985307/xi-jinping-china-propaganda-censorship-19th-congress/
In this article it talks about how China's leader Xi Jingping has done so much for the country these past few years. While he's done good things now, his questionable past seems to have been erased. Everything on the internet that was about Jingping has been removed and anybody who talks about him now is punished.Reporters and officials are scared to have an audience with the leader in fear of being arrested. No cameras are allowed to record him without his permission and if you break that you will be punished heavily.

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"Social Media's Globe-Shaking Power"
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/17/technology/social-medias-globe-shaking-power.html
This article talks about how social media can be used to influence and control society. Even with mainstream companies choosing to be against a person, such as Donald Trump, he was still able to get through to people using sites like Facebook and Twitter. This happened because websites see what someone's preferences are, and then pulls up things that are similar. This leads to people seeing only certain content with views that are similar to their own which can create a community of people with similar opinions. These groups are noticed by people with power and can be used to gain a large following of supporters.

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" How Internet Censorship Actually Works In China"
From The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/10/how-internet-censorship-actually-works-in-china/280188/
In this article it talks about how China is limiting peoples privacy. China is doing this by using censorship in  tracking and reading what people  say and do on social media. In one of their first studies they were able to built a network of computers that closely watched 1,382 Chinese websites. Authority is also able to take down anything posted on social media that they don't agree with in less then 24 hours. They also connect it to how its similar in the US because the US also remove anything illegal on the media.

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"Heres how Iran censors the internet"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/08/15/heres-how-iran-censors-the-internet/?utm_term=.e471ef0b36be
This article talks about how Iran censored the internet during a political period. People who attempt to open a banned website will get a pop up message and will get sent back to the screen that they were previously at. Over 500 most popular websites are censored. Art, News and society websites are all blocked to censor the society. Iran censors many websites to keep the society from gaining too much information about the "outside world."

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"China Presses Its internet Censorship across the globe"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/technology/china-technology-censorship-borders-expansion.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FInternet%20Censorship%20in%20China&action=click&contentCollection=world&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection
This article talks about China limiting what people read and see. China has Censored their internet so people don't read things that the government doesn't want them to read. China has a system on their technology that is called the Great Firewall that filters the information that people are receiving. China even has a tool on Facebook to limit what people see. YouTube is also censored.

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" Russia Threatens to Block YouTube and Instagram, After Complains From an Oligarch" From New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/world/europe/russia-youtube-instagram-navalny.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FCensorship&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=6&pgtype=collection
In this article they talk about how Russia wants YouTube to take down 7 videos and Instagram to take down 14 posts about Mr. Navalny's . Although YouTube has information about who uploaded the videos they have not told the person to bring down the videos. Since the companies are failing to comply the orders Russia will have to block YouTube and Instagram from viewers in the country. Problems are becoming a big deal and effecting the election.

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"Why Experts Reject Creativity" From The Atlantic.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/10/why-new-ideas-fail/381275/
In this article they talk about how "creativity" is being rejected, which is hinting at conformity, and the fear that new things becoming a big hit could start to conform us all. It talks about how experts believed the first IPhone wouldn't succeed, because it was something people had never seen before.  When it started to succeed, it was seen as a "funeral."  People spend a ton of money trying to find cures to different illnesses and those are being rejected, as technology shined through. Finally, the article talks about teachers who say they like creative children, but in reality, they don't like the "non-conformed" forms of creativity. They have more recently shoved a electronic device at them, which helps keep the kids conformed.

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"At Facebook, Hand-Wringing Over a fix for fake content" From New York  Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/technology/facebook-fake-content-employees.html
In this article they are explaining how the goal for facebook is to help the community to bring everyone closer together. However they argue that millions of people continue to add false information about products in adds. This misleads others to conform on false information about products. This also cause  facebook employees to be forced to find a solution to eliminate conformity about false advertisement. Finally facebook decides to remove about hundreds of false ads and put disclosures of political adds to show users exactly who is behind the adds. This way they no longer have everyone conformed to the same  false information.

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"Why Google Quit China-And why it's Heading Back" From The Atlantic.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/why-google-quit-china-and-why-its-heading-back/424482/
In this article it talks about businesses who do work abroad, including China. They had shut down the American Internet company (Google) in China in 2010 and had rerouted it completely. This gave many citizens in China limited access to databases, and had completely censored them from Google and the sources Google had used. The reason that Google had "quit" China is because they had discovered a cyber attack coming from inside of China. They discovered that the attackers were focused on Chinese human-right activists, and because Google had already offered a version of its services that had "conformed" to the Chinese views, they decided to cut them off in total.