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Ethics and the Internet

In the growing line of media, the Internet is the latest and in many respects the most powerful one. Its decentralized nature and two-way flow of information gives all the users the opportunity to be both the source and the end point of information, thus enabling the elimination of time and space as barriers in communication. Omnipresence and availability of Internet have long overcome its limitations as a strictly professional and scientific medium. Nowadays, the internet has become a new Forum Romanum, the place where social, political, business as well as cultural life take place. Due to progress in technology, human privacy and intimacy is exposed on this virtual Forum. Therefore, the Internet is truly a place where all the good and the bad things man does are exposed to the public eye and judgment. The human person and the human community are the object and the measure of social communication, so it is necessary to evaluate this medium not only by its technical potential or financial effect, but by the ethical values as well. In this paper the author deals with some ethical areas of concern by analyzing the phenomena related to the possibilities the Internet gives, the ways of using it and the types of information published on it.

ethics; internet; social communication

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