' L,,, ,, ,," Computers and Society , , Ethics Page "16 'March `1996 The Ethics of Cyber Relationships David Resnik University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 82071 resnik@uwyo,edu 1. INTRODUCTION In little more than a decade, the internet has affected the way we exchange information, do business, conduct research, start (or end) friendships, socialize, have sex, and shop. Like any new technology, it offers us both challenges and opportunities as it becomes part of our daily lives. The internet will have both good and bad social consequences, and it is our task as users of this new technology to try to take advantage of its virtues without succumbing to its temptations. This new technology has already generated a multitude of ethical and legal dilemmas and controversies. Questions about security, privacy, censorship, the ownership of information, gambling, and pornography loom large in most discussions about the ethical and legal quandaries of cyberspaee (Berlind, 1994; Branscurn, 1995; Hauptman, 1994; Ley, 1994; Maglitta, 1994; Szofran, 1994). 1 While these issues are important--and they certainly have occupied the media's spotlight-perhaps the most important questions about the net are more subtle and harder to grasp than these "flashy" topics. These questions concern the
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The ethics of cyber relationships
Resnik, David
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