Everything has two sides, internet gives audience power to control the information, at the same time it challenges the society. The question of what is the line between ethical and unethical been concerned in recent years because the line becomes blurry, hacking issue is a case in point. We argue that whether online hacking is an illegal issue, or it is expression of free speech. On one side, hacking is not challenge the legal system. Follow the hacker ethics which are information freedom, sharing, no secrets and humour, there is nothing could be judged. As Ted mentioned the substance of hacking is kind of crime activity,
“My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they lock like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for”.
On the other side, hacking may construct threaten to administration. Wilileaks is a perfect case to show the relation between hackers and authority. Personally, hacking is good for democracy, while challenge the propaganda.
I am quite interested in the readings of this week. E-democracy discussed by Crabtree, he portrays hacking reflect the political classes are hunkered down under a big tent marked disengagement. Hacking is an e-democracy activity, it is does not help democracy within entire political system, which means hacking only does matter to online civilians who interested in politics . As Crabtree said that,
‘if you are not interested on politics, electronic politics will not help”.
According to his argument, it is not necessary to punish hackers because they are target to small group of civilians.
Khatchadcurian sates the Wikileaks released a 2008 Pentagon report shows Wikileaks is a threat. Wikileaks criticise conduction of US military within war as investigate journalists, also he states that Wilileaks as a journalistic outlet protected by the First Amendment, the potential legal menace over above privacy. Indeed, US take this issue seriously because it construct threaten to its administration. Personally, democracy is relative to propaganda. Specifically, the content of democracy is already formed by authority; civilians could expand democracy within a very limited space
It is a very tricky issue, what information should be protected and what should have more transparency. Many of us feel wiki leaks has an important place in society, being a whistleblower, independent from media conglomerates which usually place restrictions on journalists for such activities. However, we want our personal information to be kept private. Should we give up this double standard? Or do we have a right to it?
回复删除There should be a clear line in the sand of what information when need to know and what information we don't need to know.
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