Internet Ethics: Issues that Push the Boundaries
Ethics in a Virtual World
While the internet has brought with it a vast amount of resources, business opportunities, artistic expressions and an endless number of new conveniences, it has not been without its share of criticisms. With the emergence of this virtually unsupervised world, has come the realization that "the internet knows no physical boundaries and also no moral or ethical ones"(Emmans, 2000, p.25). The internet is a world that seems to meet every type of person's needs, wants, and expectations. Therefore, defining a set of ethics and then regulating the content of the web based on it would inevitably violate someone's constitutional rights. A few of the most ethically and morally scrutinized areas of the internet have been the use of the web to display/sell pornography, to present false information or identities, and to provide data and files suspected of enabling and promoting piracy. Aspects of each of these types of internet information have caused a stir among many who question the benefits of the freedom and leeway that the web provides. These questions and controversies introduce "the free speech and censorship debate"(Porter, 1998, p. 122). In the book, Rhetorical Ethics and Internetworked Writing, James Porter examines this debate and recognizes that although free speech is a right, harassment is a form of free speech in which legal action can be taken(1998)
Internet Pornography: Easy Access
Possibly the largest, easiest to access and most accessed type of information on the internet is pornography. Perhaps this is the reason, in addition to its controversial content, why it is so widely discussed and judged. Concerns about porn on the web are b...
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Eleanor Roosevelt was an outstanding First Lady, she was the longest lasting First Lady in office and helped define and shape the role of the First Lady’s duties in office. She played many roles as the First Lady, she made public appearances with her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt, she was a leading activist in women rights and civil rights, she held many press conferences, wrote a column daily in the newspaper, and hosted radio shows at least once a week. Though her and her husband’s time in office may have been difficult, Eleanor proudly supported New Deal programs and helped create many government programs such as the National Youth Administration and the Works progress Administration
The French Revolution began after some of the great philosophers such as John Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau were establishing contracts and trying to create a way for people to have a government without a king or at least without a king being in control. The king during that time was King Louie XVI and his queen was a young woman by the name Marie Antoinette. The royal couple was not well liked due to the careless spending and lack of concern for the citizens beneath them. France was on the verge of becoming bankrupt and the crops did very poorly leaving people suffering, starving and fighting for food.
The French Revolution began in 1789 and ended in the late 1790’s (staff). Just like the American Revolution the French Revolution started with new ideas of enlightenment. French citizens started to uproot everything that was considered normal, things such as absolute monarchy and the feudal system, they wanted to redesign everything (staff). Although a lot of the attempts failed people continued to try to make the change.
For many Americans, the Great Depression caused many struggles that needed improvement. “The Great Depression was a traumatic experience for many of the men and women of the 1930s and exercised a profound influence on the generation that lived through it” (Himmelberg 3). It was traumatic because families lost jobs and lifestyles. As a way for help; they reached out to the White House to contact Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) and his wife, Eleanor. Around this time, Franklin became disabled because he contracted Polio. Eleanor had taken this opportunity to get involved to help her husband’s figure and to create one of her own. Eleanor was born on October 11, 1884. Eleanor’s parents, Anna Hall and Elliot Roosevelt had two children after, Elliot Roosevelt and Gracie Hall Roosevelt. Eleanor’s childhood was not perfect. Her mother died of Diphtheria and her father died because of alcohol problems when she was eight years old (Brick, “The Biography of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt”). Moving to New York to live with her grandmother, Eleanor received a great education. As a child she had a private tutor, Frederic Roser, to teach her literature and math from 1889-1890 (First Lady Biography: Eleanor Roosevelt). She also attended Allenswood Girl’s Academy in London from 1899-1902 where she studied languages, fine arts, and literature (“Eleanor Roosevelt Biography”, Bio.com). Her education was very important because, later on in life she wrote many books, articles, spoke at major events for the public and more. Eleanor married her distant cousin, FDR the 32nd President and had six children together (Tyle, "Eleanor Roosevelt”). He was a major influence to her (“Eleanor Roosevelt Biography”, Bio.com) along with her uncle, President Theodore Roosevelt th...
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Abstract: This paper examines the use of Internet technologies (specifically SafeWeb.com) to counteract invasions of personal privacy and censorship. The paper begins by exploring the methods by which governments, corporations, and commercial agents invade personal privacy. It also discusses Internet censorship on the corporate and governmental levels. It then proceeds to discuss SafeWeb.com, a technology that allows Internet users to surf the Web privately and view censored content. The paper finishes by exploring some of the ethical issues raised by Internet privacy and censorship in specific relation to SafeWeb, concluding that the application of SafeWeb in circumventing the authority of governments and corporations is inherently unethical.
As defined by Anne- Frances Watson (2014), pornography can be described as ‘obscene,’ as it means different things to different people. Video cassette style porn and adult magazines are losing the popularity race to online porn access. The reason for this transition is that online pornography websites are increasingly starting to behave like social networks ...
The population was divided into three estates. The Third Estate, also known as the commoners was made up of the bourgeoisie, wage earners and the peasantry. They were the majority of the population. The Second Estate was for the nobility. The First Estate was composed of the clergy. The Upper Clergy were very wealthy and powerful and therefore they related to the First Estate. The Lower Clergy related more to the Lower Estates. "The first two states enjoyed privileges over the Third Estate. Although they were the richest, they were exempt from taxes. They were also the only members in society who could hold positions of importance such as Officers in the army" (www.members.aol.com). This caused great discontent within the Third Estate.
Before analysing the nature of the revolution, one must understand the social structure of pre-revolutionary France which is referred to as the Ancien Regime. Society was divided into estates and the king ruled over all of them. The king was an absolute monarch. “The adjective means that he…was not subject to the laws, since he was their originator.” The first estate consisted of the clergy, the second estate housed the aristocracy or the nobles who owned land, and the third estate was everyone else. The third estate was a very broad and diverse category as it consisted of ninety six percent of the population. Within this diverse third estate were the bourgeoisie. Georges Lefebvre divides the bourgeoisie into five groups “the bourgeois proper ‘living nobly and on his property, members of the royal administration, officiers, proprietors of venal offices, some of them ennobled, lawyers- notaries, procureurs, avocats, members of the liberal professions-doctors, scientists, writers, artists, the word of finance and commerce, shipbuilders, wholesale traders, entrepreneurs and the upper gr...
With over 759 million registered domain names, the Internet has proved to be the definitive source of information (Hunter). Covering a full spectrum of subjects and services, it is an entity that we can not do without. However, despite all this usefulness, more than 14 percent of all websites are dedicated to pornography (Ward). To further worsen the matter, more than 13 percent of all searches made daily are
Salman, A. S. (2013, June 2). Dealing with Ethical Issues among Internet Users: Do We Need Legal Enforcement? Asian Social Science, pp. 9(8), 3-8. doi:10.5539/ass.v9n8p3.
The people of the Third Estate were also being treated unfairly and unjustly. The tax system was another contribution of the revolution. The nobles and clergy would tax the rest of the people by voting. Since the people were divided into sections, each section would count as one vote, despite the fact that the First and Second Estate was only made up of two percent of the population. Also, the nobles and clergy were usually exempt from paying the taxes. This made the people angry. The tax system resulted in the Tennis Court Oath. Members of the Third Estates met there to gather and talk about the problems.
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In recent years, pornography has established itself as perhaps the most controversial topic arising out of the use of the Internet. The easy availability of this type of sexually explicit material has caused a panic among government officials, family groups, religious groups and law enforcement bodies and this panic has been perpetuated in the media.