Are There Computer, Technology and Internet Ethics?

I found an entertainingblogthis morning discussing internet ethics. Chris Pirillo, the blog’s author, was responding to a set of questions asked of him by a computer science student. Those questions were: How would you define the computer Ethics in today’s digital world?

sounds like your doing his homework!

YES.

Lord, this is the most boring topic ever. Chris you lost a subscription….sorry. I just can’t stand the fact that all you do is sit around and do stuff on the pc all day. Lord! Get out and do something please!!!!

boring vid… this only applies to the guy who asked u this question! :S

* Don’t use the internet to piss off eight of your classmates.

* Don’t beat the shit out of your classmate for pissing you off and then post a video of the act.

Don’t swear/curse on websites that children can access, such as Youtube.

Hi Chris,

I love your blogs. I was wondering what you thought about the ethics of students using online services to share information. For example, I am starting to use Web 2.0 software (similar to Facebook) called CollegeBrain.net (http://www.collegebrain.net) to manage my courses online. My reason for this is that the schools current offering is Blackboard or nothing. Anyway CollegeBrain is great and their privacy policy seems like it keeps my information safe enough, but how do I know my students aren’t going to use Web 2.0 technology like this to cheat? What are your thoughts? I hope I’m not making a mistake in trusting online services like this.

As far as I know CollegeBrain.net is the only “Web 2.0″ solution to course management (If my math is correct, that makes Blackboard/Moodle Web 1.0?). I’m sure their are more like it, and I’m sure other users are dying to know what you think about this. Here is a link to the site that introduced me to CollegeBrain: http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/site-of-the-week/site/?i=53553;_hbguid=c1a1fc5d-258d-486a-a765-f7950b754d2c&d=site-of-the-week

Thanks for reading, looking forward to hearing what you have to say about this moral dilemma

-JBF

ethics really come out when the internet makes it so easy to steal music, movies, appz…

You can be the most honest, ethical person in the world, but when something you want it 1 click away, it’s hard. So NO, IMO the internet has no ethics.

he did. he wen to go visit his family

nope its not its a a small chance in a fintate but incredibly large pool of possibility that unfortunatly most humans are to small thinking to understand. the universe could have been laying dormant for percievably forever before this happened experienceing other equations and possibilities or nothing at all…. its quite a large place and forever is quite a long time.

Peace & thank you for not “bible” bashing

Brian

Chris,
Great discussion on ethics! Jesus said those words you’re referring to about the Golden Rule in the bible in Luke 6:31. If you’ll take 1 minute and read what He said right after that you won’t be disappointed…Jesus said “If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even ’sinners’ love those who love them. And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even ’sinners’ do that. And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even ’sinners’ lend to ’sinners,’ expecting to be repaid in full. But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.”
Both interesting and challenging at the same time!
Take care…thanks for listening…keep up the fantastic work you do!

Yes, there was forever before the world was created by God He created it Himself for us to live in, but man messed it up. I do agree with you that most people cant understand that there was forever before the world was made. But still if you sat there for forever and dropped the pieces of a fighter jet, it would never build itself completely. Just look around at the world. Even if the world did get made by chance, how would everything in it develop then? The same way? I highly doubt it!

thats the thing of course it would, there are a finite possiblitity for the way physics reacts and a 1 combination of contruction if you sat there long enough it would happen.

Peace

Brian

secondly elemental physics shows attraction through out many of the basic structures of the universe things attract each other its like saying what if over an infintae time line you had an uncountable number of parts for a plane which all attracted each other…….. ? of course eventually it would make a plane

Ethics are what you do when noone is watching.

Chris,

Good answers. I would add that ethics don’t change when you go online. Lying online is ethically no different than lying offline. The anonymity and social feedback make the dynamics of online interactions around lying different, but this does not change the underlying ethical issue.

I would also add that there is no “true code of ethics” regarding computer use anymore than there is a “true code of ethics” regarding behaviors in general. While all major religions tend to agree that you should ethically avoid harming, thievery, lying and adultery, there are many cultural and personal interpretations of this.

I personally view ethics as your personal standards of right and wrong. If you may have different standards of right and wrong than some social networks or online communities. There are easy solutions to this. If you find some social networks ethically objectionable — don’t participate. Likewise if a social network finds your online behaviors unacceptable — they will ask you not to participate.

Yes, but they didn’t all attract to eachother, and even so, then everything in the world would not have attracted to eachother as well. Don’t you see man just be a little openminded dude, I’m being as openminded as I can and your theory makes alot of sense in one way, but in another, it just wouldn’t happen!

im agnostic im an ultimatly open minded if something is poven to me i will belive it i dont have blind faith in somehting just because i claim to undestand it, or because someone else of so called authority has. You are not open minded because you allready have formed faith and belifes :) it limits you to other opertunities i personally wouldnt dare to assume i knew why and how to be honest i couldnt care any less about it, it has no effect on my life whatsoever.

Peace

Brian

Actually I am being open minded, just because you have a belief already doesn’t mean that it has to affect your openmindedness, yes I understand your point that most people can’t but that doesn’t mean that has to include me. I thought about that for a while and it just cant happen. Like I said even with things being attracted to eachother. Not everything would be attracted to eachother so this just wouldn’t happen.

I aprecitate to much that you do not get offended when we disucuss that because i am highly opinionated and somtimes that offends people.

By your logic aeroplanes cannot exist? there is a huge amount of potential energy and information in this universe just like in an aeroplane there’s a formula, it has a recipe to make it work, now the ingridients for an aeroplane have allways existed it just took a relativly sort amount of time for the universe to randomly generate it.

planes can exist, but they need someone to build them. Or they can be built by things that someone made AKA machinery. This could just keep going on and on but from every way I can see, it always points back to someone made it on purpose.

what is this universe except a load of non descript engergy it is all the same. Everything … every single thing in this universe. A plane is just energy stored in the form of a plane, all that is different is the arrangement. You are saying that in an infinate time line there is no chance that something that allready exists would come into existance. Are we so egotistical that we cant see past the human perseption of things, just becasue we create a certain way doesn mean the universe does?

sorry if thats fragmented i had to clip alot of its structure because of the text limit

Ok I see what your saying, the universe doesn’t have to create the way we do. I think that it does because there is no proof of it working any other way. Why don’t random people just get created by the universe anymore then? The universe wouldn’t have changed its ways over time. So there would be people and other things that just came from the universe then.

? im not saying that the creation of seperate people is neceserilly the concequence of a random action although it is when you consider the amount of people and combination of sper ovum etc there is…but the initial creation of the situation that lead to the creation of life and an eco system was probably due to some random event.

Peace

Brian

also there might be a place in the universe where the universe does these things over smaller period (by human experience of time)

where it is observable to humans, evolution of bacteria is a common example but seeing the progresion of a species and the creation of an eco system would be harder proof or evidence of this theory

Peace

Brian

but why hasn’t another random event happened and been witnessed?

? are you joking they happen all the time plus in the infinate timline of the universe time becomes irelivent remeber we are only a very new species on quite a new planet so if we havent seen anything yet? we havent lived for long enough probably. Wait until we mature as a species it might take millions of years and multiple planets or even being shown by older species maybe aliens who knows its all specualtion. The thing is why doe it even matter at the moment?

Peace

Brian

A. Because you don’t know the answer and now are changing the subject. B. because that is your “proof” C. watch this video: youtube(dot)com/watch?v=vEXGKzH0F9c
replace (dot) with .

? i dont have proof or an answer in my life i dont need one :) i am spiffing just floating around lettig other people worry about these silly questions. I personally gave up on these persuits when i was a child now just think life is for enjoying and spreading love as much as you can those are my only belifes.

Peace

Brian

I could never get that. Do on to others as you like to be treated. or however you would like to say it.

what if that person likes to be beaten, fight or whatever? what if that person likes being hurt for whatever turns them on.

I like to use. No one person has any right to force themselfs mentaly or physicaly on to another no matter what. That itself should work alot better.

Problem with the internet is there is almost no way to trace back the poster. So everyone is just being plain rude and forcing the opinions they have onto others and get aggressive if they can’t.

If there was a way to get back to them and show them they aren’t so safe as they think on the internet (which they aren’t) they would treaty people online with the same respect as they would in public.