It is significantly important to consider and discuss the philosophical study of ethics before basing judgment on WikiLeaks and Hacktivism activities. The recent intense pressure from the US government over WikiLeaks activities clearly demonstrates the level of unethicalness. Moreover, the studies explain that the moral actions are based according to the customs of the community in a specified area of interest. In order to ensure that some of the rights of expression from different ethical groups in the society are not violated, supporting arguments are openly displayed to the public. Therefore, WikiLeaks and Hacktivism being bound together by shared cultural and ethical values, clearly explains the need to deeply understand the ethical values in order to withdraw the claims against them.
The legitimate acts of free speech on WikiLeaks and Hacktivism have prompted a lot unanswered questions concerning their justification on the freedom of speech. The limits appositively corresponds to the philosophical ethics where the freedom of an individual to express his or her own idea to the public through political means is allowed provided the individual does not tamper with the freedom of other individuals in the society or prompt clashes.
The debate of whether the WikiLeaks should be taken action against still lies as a controversy as the philosophical ethics protects the involved party. Although the philosophical ethics do not precisely points out on how the freedom of speech should be expressed, in our common knowledge on the same subject of discussion, it can be argued that the limits to which speech of an individual is controlled or despised by other individual in the community is still a mystery and the most unregulated methodology existing in the world. In this view, the question of whether WikiLeaks and Hacktivism activities should be justified still remains as an unsolved riddle in the eyes of the public.
According to Rawls, categorized justice into forms first, liberty principle and difference principle. He believed that inequality in social or either economic goods are acceptable if only they can stimulate the welfare of the least advantage. Therefore it is morally justice to tax the rich for the least advantaged poor people. This will make them to have opportunities in their lives as well as an access to basic resources. Nozik also says that when distributing basic resources there must be inequality according to once need.
In Rawls and Nozick’s theories of justice, it is true that economic inequalities is applicable in human society under one condition if only is of significant to least advantaged individual. Nozick also admit that his entitlement theory is not capable to disprove the demand of redistributionist state. This is because hi said that some collective holdings were obtained through some unique act of unjust conquest. However, Nozick responded to Rawls who stated that difference principles which is one of his form of justice is morally accepted since the rich are highest likelihood of being preceding victims of injustice. For instance, in accessing basic cyber technology must be improved not only the rich to be accessing but everyone in the society so that one can pursue in an honorable human life.
The second forms of injustice in Rawls’ theories which is difference principle. Inequality must be applicable since we all have different needs. For instance technology is more advanced in the towns than in villages this is because in towns advancement of technology is more important because of the situation. However, health services and facilities must be equal since we have some soul and body that require equal health services. Therefore, this stand of view sounds argumentative.
Self-Reflections
Currently, everything has become computerized therefore it is an essential significant to understand computer ethics which refers to analysis of social and nature impact of computer technology. This has made us to discover and understand significance of reasonable malleable. According to first theory of social presence gives sense awareness to the communicator. This theory is important since it make us to know as well as knowing and thinking about others in different ways. For instance, their traits, inner state and their qualities, therefore this increase our presence that leads to someone being a better with better perception. Media richness theory helps someone to examine the effects that are brought by different types of communications.
According to Floridi and Moor, they categorized technology into Technology determinists and neutralists (also known as Utopianism). They further claimed that there is a third existing category referred to as the Technological realism in which the dependent power force of technology identity is constantly under deformation as a result of intense pressure from political and social media. There is an existing ethical question on the revolution of technology. Moreover, the revolution of technological advancement has led to a rapid integration of different societies and has brought great significance on the same. The signaling theory explains the behaviors of two involved parties when accessing confidential information between them. There must be the sender and the receiver of the same message being sent across using the signal technology hence enhancing the level of communication between people.
