Technology moves fast. Chances are, the device you are reading this on is already antiquated — and if you’re reading this in the physical paper, very much so.

With this quickly evolving technology comes — you guessed it — responsibility. This generation has already seen vast advances from the iPhone to Cloud storage.

Private photos of celebrities were stolen and leaked last week by hackers who got into iCloud accounts. The less-than-safe-for-work photos spread across the Internet through feeds like those on 4chan and Reddit.

Whether you viewed these or not is irrelevant. The fact that they spread and are likely still highly prevalent is enough to prove that this generation is not handling the power before them responsibly.

As it stands, the Internet is a place of anarchy. For every website that is shut down due to illegal content, more will likely appear.

Although leaked celebrity photos are beginning to feel like the norm, the distribution of nude photos without permission is a sex crime, celebrity or not. Behind the privacy of a keyboard, Internet users seem to forget this, or worse, ignore it.

To make advances in technology a benefit rather than a scourge, this generation will have to reconcile with the reckless attitude they now seem to carry.

Congress has tried and will likely continue to try to regulate the Internet. Opponents will have to find a way to justify a free Internet that allows sex crimes to run rampant with little or no control.

Free speech is important, but the lives of those affected by a lawless Internet are as well.

—For the editorial board, Jake Trease