Research On The Ethical Problems Of Internet Rumors

The technology of Internet world is developing quickly. Now the Internet has graduallybecome an important information platform and communication tool, which made a greatinfluence on people’s life, work, communication and consumption. But when it improvedpeople’s quality and efficiency of life significantly, it also produced a series of social problems,including network rumors, which caused by the virtual property of network and the opennessof network morality.Internet rumors is a cancer on the Internet, which not only pollute the culturalenvironment of the network, reduce the public trust degree to the society, but also easy tostimulate the negative psychological of some Internet users, and lead to a strong shocks onpeople’s values, moral quality and cultural mentality. So we need to formulate measures assoon as possible, to cut off the chain of rumors and curb the spread of network rumors. Thespread of Internet rumors is also Indicate a lack of network ethics. Therefore, to create apositive, healthy and real network environment, it is not enough to rely on law and accuratenetwork monitoring technology, we also need to take moral means that suit the characteristicsof the network.So the research to ethical problems of online rumors, not only helps to improve the socialresponsibility of Internet users, and provide a reference for government to control of Internetrumors, but also has important practical significance for maintaining social stability andpromoting the construction of socialist harmonious society. This paper will analyze thenetwork rumors from the introduction and the spread of Internet rumors, ethical issues andethical countermeasures In the perspective of ethics.The first part is prolegomenon, which is an analysis of the background and significanceof the issues, and the research status at home and abroad for network rumors. The second partis Internet rumors and its spread, first, it sums up the rumor concepts from existing researchtheories, then it educes the concept of network rumors and categorizes it from differentperspectives. Next obtain the propagation characteristics of network rumors, to provide thebasis for follow-up study. Finally, expound the ethical problems that is brought by the Internetrumors, to provide theoretical support for taking ethical measures to control of Internet rumors. The third part mainly expounds the reasons of the growth and spread of Internetrumors from an ethical perspective. The fourth part is the countermeasure that improve thecurrent online rumors governance. It puts forward ethical measures from six aspects ofpropaganda, education, specification, consciousness, self-discipline and accomplishment,which is in order to curb the spread of Internet rumors completely, restore an ordered and realnetwork environment.