Cyber Ethics

CYBER ETHIC'S THEORY

Cyber ​​ethics is an unwritten rule known in the IT world. A values ​​are agreed to be followed in which user interaction technology, particularly information technology. The absence of clear limits physically as well as the extent of the use of IT in various fields make everyone who uses information technology would be expected to comply with the existing cyber ethics.

Cyber ​​ethics bring new opportunities in education, business, government services with their internet presence. Thus developed the netiquette / nettiquette is one of the ethical references in communicating using the Internet, guided by the IETF (the Internet engineering task force), which sets RFC (netiquette guidelies in a request for comments)

The importance of ethics in cyberspace

The presence of the internet in people's lives has created a community of its own society. Correspondence that had done traditionally (pigeon or post office) can now be done simply by sitting and typing the letter in front of the computer.

Some of the reasons for the importance of ethics in cyberspace are as follows:

That Internet users come from various countries that may have a culture, language and customs are different.

Internet users are people who live in the world anonymouse, which does not require the original statement of identity in interaction.

A wide variety of facilities provided in the internet allows a person to act ethically as for example, there are also residents who like fun to do things that are not supposed to do.

It should be noted that Internet users will always grow all the time and allow the entry of "residents" of the new virtual world.