Cyberstalking
Cyberstalking is meaning that using internet or other electronic to stalk or harass a person, a group of people or even an organization. This may include false accusations, making threats, identity theft, damage data or the equipment, the solicitation of minors for sex or gathering information to harass.
For the traditional liberal ethic values, that assumes everyone has equal abilities and enjoy the equal interactions on internet, but seems that they have isolated the truth that men and women are not equal.
Women and men are treated differently in cyberspace, and as Herring said that the online sexual harassment tends to mirror the levels of harassment that women find in real life. “Cyberstalking” has been created to describe the stalking behavior perpetrated through some aspect of information and the technology of the communication. According to the readers, there are three case studies, they all shows that usually the women are the victims, and why they became the victim is just because they chose to speak up publicly on the internet about perceived injustices. This raises a question of individual privacy, but this really hammers home what is involved in violations of individual privacy.
Although men and women can be the victims of the cyberstalking, the majority is still shows that women as the victims and the men as the perpetrators. Cyberstalking behavior is strongly gendered.
As the reader mention that the feminist ethics emphasizes the web of responsibilities we have towards one another in an “ethic of care” rather than seeing us as individual moral agents that implied by the traditional liberal ethics.
As Taylor mentions that cyberstalking displays clearly gendered aspects and it has noted that hacking is largely a masculine phenomenon. The author said that the feminist ethics holds much promise both in forming alternative analyses of computer ethics problems and in offering a more collectivist vector for computer ethics.
The Ethics of Porn on the Net
As internet is becoming more and more important nowadays, the internet porn is become both non-academic and academic issue. It is no longer a secret anymore.
Internet porn seems like a kind of “domestication” of pornography. It also allows all the people to be the amateur pornographers.
Pornography understood in term of morality, the Judeo-Christian “sex is a matter of procreation, private “married love”. On the other hand, the internet porn depicts non-reproductive sex acts, performed in public, or for profit between two unmarried and not heterosexual, partners. Pornography consider to be immoral because
It makes something “public” that should be private. It also encourages people to exchange sex for money and exploits women by representing them as being sexually active and available. The last reason is that it represents a limited range of body types as sexually appealing.
Nowadays more and more people want to share their sexy photo or video to the public without any commercial purpose. It seems like that the people want to try to change the traditional sexual idea and break the taboo. It also allows the non-professionals can become a porn star. The amateur pornographers are also trying to shape a new idea of traditional “sexy” in the internet.
All in all, as there are some advantage and disadvantage for the internet porn, it all depends on what you think and feel.
After we finished the reading, we wanted to ask few question for our classmates. Please feel free to answer us.
1. Why the girls are always being in a low status and always be the target of the cyberstalking?
2. In Hong Kong, is there have any example for the cyberstalking? For Example: HKgolden
3. Does the cyberstalking exist any advantage or disadvantage?
4. Will the internet porn affect our real life or the real sex? Will the internet porn change the status of the women? Will the internet porn affect the definition of Ethic?
By Sing Wong
BY POyuponyo Ng
For question 1, I think girls are always being in a lower status and are always being the target of cyberstalking because women are traditionally treated as more inferior than men are. No matter it is in the real world or on the internet, women are usually being attacked by others. Men are especially the majority to stalk or harrass women. I think men sometimes consider themselves as more superior so that they use the internet as a medium to discuss, attack and accuse their so-called "inferior" women. Therefore, the traditional value between the difference of men and women may be one of the reasons for the existing situation of cyberstalking.
ReplyDeleteFor question 3, I can't see there is any advantage of cyberstalking. It is because it does generate a more serious gender imbalance in the cyber world.
No matter where the region is, the west or the east, women usually is placed at a lower status or marked at a weaker in most of the societies.
ReplyDeleteMoreover, accessing to the internet is becoming easier and common. I think internet has transformed into a second reality that reflects the "REAL" reality, when more people go onto the internet
Because people treat the internet as a "reality", the same situation (girls are always being in a low status) is existed - the cyberstalking.
My exprience: The HKgolen forum is one of the famous website in HK. Few years ago, I used my male friend's account to express my opinion on the forum rather than to create my own account. The reason is that male member has the stronger barganing power than female there, and the number of male member is greater than the female one, so I would say male dominated that forum, and I was afraid to speak out as a female.
I agree that the internet porn affects the real life or the real sex. Because some male prefer having sex with their computers (watching pron video via internet) instead of having sex with their girlfriend. Therefore I think that internet has the ability to interrupt the real life.
In real life of in virtual life, women seem is a low level, low status and victims in different situation. This is a good question that why women always in low level, because of history or actually the biological problem inborn?
ReplyDeleteCyberstalking is same as cyber crime. Internet is just like spider web, if you enter into the web, your identity will be exposing. Everything on internet is danger however we need internet at most. On example of Cyberstalking is impressing to me which about one Hong Kong girl call Ruby, and she is the last generation of Form five student. She had posted a video on YouTube which content about blaming the education department, some of the student etc. Then, her information exposed on internet very quickly, and someone blame her. In this case, she has no choice, she can’t delete those posts, and she is a victim.
Cyberstalking is a power way to explore different things. On the other hand, it is a kind of online abuse and harass.