Ethical Issues in Open Internet
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Running Head: ETHICAL ISSUES OF ITCEthical Issues in Open Internet- Net NeutralityAssignment 3: Applying Ethical TheoryName:Number:Name
1ETHICAL ISSUES OF ITCIntroductionIn today’s generation the Internet has already changed the way of accessing on the internet. Inthe current scenario it has become essential to have the internet service providers and theinternet services provided by the government. It is essential that the internet users must treatall the usability of the data on the internet. It is the basic principle that has been forbid by theInternet Service Providers to slow down or blocking of the unwanted cites. It enables toaccess all the content an applications regardless of the source(Beck et al., 2016). Theorganisation has the appropriate principles to be followed by the Net Neutrality that is beenmentioned in the European Law that no blocking or Reducing the speed of the internetintentionally by the Internet Service Provider so as to stop the application process. Thepeople of the Europe have full rights to access to the open internet and they should be giventhe priority to provide facility of accessing to the internet services via high quality networks.Net Neutrality has come up with an idea of open fair and free internet accessibility(Fleischmann et al., 2015).1.Utilitarianism Theory-From a Utilitarian Point of view, there are many people from the European parties whichare impacted by the decision made of net neutrality. Generally, it is dependable onwhether the decision made would be in their support and will benefit or will damage themain causes. The main Pros of Net Neutrality:Financial Burden- It totally depends that if the ISPs were charging the huge amount onthe heavy usage of the bandwidth. That it would be thoughtful that who will bear the costwhether the website owners or the public. If Public was to be charged on this than, theaccess to the internet would provide more information with the dedicated speed and forthis, users have to pay more cost which tends to build the communication gap. And if thewebsite was to be charged than it is most essential that the e-commerce tool should becarried out. As the companies are working there and utilizing the more websites as freemedium of source to promote their products and services. For this companies are giventhe priority for charging the extra amount for accessing to the internet (Fleischmann et al.,2017).Globalization- Net Neutrality is connected to a free market. It permits globally andspecially to the new start-ups to compete with the current business in the market withoutbeing distinguished. It works on to progress made drastically with the net neutrality.Your Name
2ETHICAL ISSUES OF ITCInnovation and Creativity- Net Neutrality emboldens to the greater competency and itsometimes becomes an ethical issue being arise doing the innovation. For the innovation,public have full rights to share or express their views and ideas on websites, such asPersonal Blogs or their own commercial web sites.Censorship-ISPs have the full rights to control over the internet for censoring and filteringall the web sites according to their rules and regulations and strategies they imply for thecompanies to hold.Privacy- ISPs can monitor everything that their customers are accessing over the net. Allthe activities made by the customers are been monitored to have the information beingcollected from the customers usage (Shin et al., 2017).2.Deontology Theory-Deontology theory can be termed as those ethical duties which need to be followed for thenormal ethical position that is basically judged on the basis of action based rules. It is beenexpressed on the basis of duties or obligations been made to bind the duty. It mainly focuseson the right and wrong human actions. Deontology theory generally talks about the social andeconomic arguments against the net neutrality instruction. It generally regulate on the worseconsequences that leads to internet to unregulated relatively (Marsden, 2016). According tothis theory net neutrality regulation is itself partial. One major assumption been made is onthe both the ISPs and the customers to which both parties are been subscribed to the ruleswhich to be followed. This would not occur if the ISPs have promised to provide theaccessibility to the customers for full internet but they block some parts of the internet sites.So this is being unjust to the customers. Basically it is not providing the full rights to thecustomers so ISPs are withdrawn by its agreement. These scenarios are basically become themajor issue for this they have full rights according to the system of laws and contracts topunish those sort of faults (Arasa, 2017).3.Virtue Theory-This theory basically emphasize on the virtues of mind and character. Virtue Ethics in termsof professionalism discuss about the nature and the character of virtues and other relatedproblems. It mainly examines on how the virtues are been applied in real life. It is thecontinuing idea with a prehistoric root. In historical period the ethical philosophy was earlierknown as the virtue ethics (Souza et al., 2017). It is basically imply for the neither to rule norto make any significances. The mainly acceptable things for the virtues are a free religiousYour Name
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