Reflection And Construction Of Internet Ethics

Internet technology is a revolutionary technology when it was born. As and development of technology, social influence becomes more deeply. Internet technology gives us some new abilities and opportunities, our channels of communication have been widened, the diverse demand of us has been enriched. Although the internet technology is playing a positive role, sometimes it could bring negative effects to us. The unethical or illegal things happened frequently, such as, internet fraud, hacker attack, canard of internet and so on. Ethical issues have occurred frequently in cyberspace, reflect the problem of internet ethics and establish create the system of internet ethics is very urgent. Cyberspace is the extension of realistic reality, it has some characteristics from the realistic society, at the same time it also has some unique characteristics of its own. As a newborn thing, cyberspace is similar to the realistic society, but it not equal to realistic society, realistic society has some policies such as ethics and legislation,and these policies can help us manage the society. But the internet society is facing to the "policy vacuum", when we face to the new abilities and chances which internet technology brings, we wouldn’t know what to do and how to use them, so it caused a result is that the occurrence of unethical behavior frequently. So we need some policies to help us manage to the internet society the same as the realistic society. Establish create the system of internet ethics is a key part of these policies. Due to the special relationship between realistic society and internet society, the internet ethics must be absorbed the reasonable level from social ethics, and have further develop and innovate. The construction of internet ethics is settle down to coordinate the relationship between the principal of internet, purify the cyberspace, create a harmonious internet society and human common good life of human beings, it need our common efforts.