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The Need for a Code of Ethics on Internet Usage

To understand the issue of internet ethics, you must first have a basic understanding of how the internet actually works. Although the internet actually came into being by the American military in 1969, it wasn't until 1989 that the World Wide Web was created in Switzerland. Today there are some 400 million people regularly using the internet for both personal and business matters.The internet was originally designed as a closed network for military and then academic purposes and, because of this closed nature dealing with specific issues, the problem of online ethics was not foreseen.Only the intellectual few were able to use the internet in its early days and as such, a set of values seen as inherent in these individuals was basically seen as the 'code of conduct'. Therefore, acceptance...