Internet and Ethics

Although common ethics must be followed on the internet as well as anywhere else, they might be simply insufficient. While plagiarism is clearly unethical in all fields, such things, as leeching or flooding, might be harder to distinguish simply due to their exclusive nature. DDoS attacks and other violent actions are clearly unethical, but is it unethical to not use a search function before posting in a forum? Is it unethical to use ALL CAPS when submitting a message or sending an e-mail? At last, is it ethical to not follow various conventions like spelling?

Internet ethics is something that has not been clearly established yet and thus the hardest to follow. Furthermore, if common plagiarism might be something you never thought of simply because you never create anything, when you use internet, even if you just look around, you have to know about numerous ethical rules. Just as it might be unethical to walk around in a mask, it might be unethical to access websites with an anonymous proxy. When one thinks of using internet, they also have to think of how they will do it.

P.S. Webliography has been updated once again…

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