Social Issues:-
The widespread introduction of networking will introduce new social, ethical, political problems
(Loudan, 1995). Let us just briefly mention a few for them; a through that study will require a full
book, at least. a popular feature of many networks are newsgroups or bulletin boards where
people can exchange messages with-like minded inviduals. as long as the subjects are restricted to technical topics or hobbies like gardening, not to many problems will arise.
The trouble comes when newsgroups are set up on topics that people actually care about, like
politics, religion, or sex. views posted to such groups may be deeply offensive to some people.
Furthermore, message need to be limited to text. High resolution colour photographs and even
short video clips can now easily be transmitted over computer networks. some people take a live
and let live view but others feel that posting certain material (e.g., child pornography) is simply unacceptable. Thus the debate rages.
People have sued network operators, climbing that they are responsible for the contents of what
they carry, just as newspaper and magazines are. The inevitable response is that a network is like
a telephone company or the post office and can not be expected to police what its users say.
stronger yet, having network operators censor message would probably causes them to delete
everything with even the slightest possibility of their being sued, and thus violate there users' rights to free speech. it is probably safe to say that this debate will go on for a while.
Another fun area is employee rights versus employer rights. Many people read and rights. Many
people read and write email at work. Some employers have claimed that right to read and possibly
censor employee message, including message sent from a home terminal after work. not all
employees agree with this (sipior and Ward, 1995).
Even if employers have power over employees, does this relationship also govern universities
and students. how about high school and students. In 1994, Carnige-Mellon university decided to
turn off the incoming message stream for several newsgroups dealing with sex because the
university felt the material was inappropriate for minors (i.e.those few student under 18). the fallout from this event will take years to settle.
Computer Networks offer the potential for sending anonymous message. In some situation, this
capability may be desirable, for example, it provides a way for students, soldiers, employees, and
citizens to below the whistle on illegal behavior on the part of professors, officers, superiors, and
politicians without fear of reprisals. on the others hand, in the united states and most other
democracies, the law specifically permits an accused person the right to the confront and challenge his accuser in court. anonymous assusations cannot be used as evidence.
In Short, computer networks, likes the printing press 500 year ago, allow ordinary citizens to
distribute their views in different audiences then were previously possible. This new-found
freedom brings with it many unsolved social, political, and moral issues. The solution to these problems is left as an exercise for the reader.....
The widespread introduction of networking will introduce new social, ethical, political problems
(Loudan, 1995). Let us just briefly mention a few for them; a through that study will require a full
book, at least. a popular feature of many networks are newsgroups or bulletin boards where
people can exchange messages with-like minded inviduals. as long as the subjects are restricted to technical topics or hobbies like gardening, not to many problems will arise.
The trouble comes when newsgroups are set up on topics that people actually care about, like
politics, religion, or sex. views posted to such groups may be deeply offensive to some people.
Furthermore, message need to be limited to text. High resolution colour photographs and even
short video clips can now easily be transmitted over computer networks. some people take a live
and let live view but others feel that posting certain material (e.g., child pornography) is simply unacceptable. Thus the debate rages.
People have sued network operators, climbing that they are responsible for the contents of what
they carry, just as newspaper and magazines are. The inevitable response is that a network is like
a telephone company or the post office and can not be expected to police what its users say.
stronger yet, having network operators censor message would probably causes them to delete
everything with even the slightest possibility of their being sued, and thus violate there users' rights to free speech. it is probably safe to say that this debate will go on for a while.
Another fun area is employee rights versus employer rights. Many people read and rights. Many
people read and write email at work. Some employers have claimed that right to read and possibly
censor employee message, including message sent from a home terminal after work. not all
employees agree with this (sipior and Ward, 1995).
Even if employers have power over employees, does this relationship also govern universities
and students. how about high school and students. In 1994, Carnige-Mellon university decided to
turn off the incoming message stream for several newsgroups dealing with sex because the
university felt the material was inappropriate for minors (i.e.those few student under 18). the fallout from this event will take years to settle.
Computer Networks offer the potential for sending anonymous message. In some situation, this
capability may be desirable, for example, it provides a way for students, soldiers, employees, and
citizens to below the whistle on illegal behavior on the part of professors, officers, superiors, and
politicians without fear of reprisals. on the others hand, in the united states and most other
democracies, the law specifically permits an accused person the right to the confront and challenge his accuser in court. anonymous assusations cannot be used as evidence.
In Short, computer networks, likes the printing press 500 year ago, allow ordinary citizens to
distribute their views in different audiences then were previously possible. This new-found
freedom brings with it many unsolved social, political, and moral issues. The solution to these problems is left as an exercise for the reader.....
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