Does technological innovation improve or corrupt morality
This question feels like a question from a college philosophy class, I think it is a real concern for thinkers and technologists. Internet technologies and the introduction of smartphones, and social media is now attached to phones, computers, and tablets, everyone is connected to each other the list goes on.
Problems I see with this question that I see all the time are fake information and incorrect news masked as correct information people see these fake news articles and fake information and take it as the gospel and it changes people and the way they think because what they are reading they think it has the correct research, the people that like to argue with facts because they think the topic, they have researched on a social media platform is correct when it is wrong I see this a lot on Facebook.
It has been a thing for a few years since the inception of social media, websites like Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms not doing the correct thing and checking the validity of the news being posted on the social media outlet.
At the end of the day things have gone from bulletin boards to forums and now social media sites these sites have evolved into much more, and for them to keep up with trends and fixing up things on the platforms is a hard one for them to get on top of, a lot of people all being connected at the same is a great idea but if a platform you are using has not taken the time to screen the fake news articles to make sure they are valid makes the platform less intriguing in wanting to be used by the whole.
Every time Fail book or Google make a change these such companies/entities should be held accountable for the changes; they change in the digital ecology they have created.
As said above certain technology and media written by others can be affected by another ecology or platform this could affect people in adverse ways whether it be beneficial or damaging to the reader.
What do I think?
So, people writing their own content should take into consideration the way the content could affect others the way it will be taken by others on the medium it is being placed upon and also to check if the content being created written designed and then placed on a site is morally right once all check boxes have been thought about then you can improve on your work ethic and then we can work on ourselves.
Once we know these things, I think technology is a good thing if used in the right way it can help many people in so many ways, but there are those that like to make things hard for others and this mindset really needs to be phased out, always since the start of the internet don’t feed the trolls.
Cyber bullying has gone from harmless forum posts of back and forth to taking it, that step to far I personally think young children should be allowed to play online games as long as the parents are setting up the network to block the chat engine in the games to stop interactions with others till they are of the correct age, or it should it be placed on the company making the game offering parents a screening process so only children can be on the chat in the game and if adults play they can only speak adults some games have actually added these features but most don’t do it and leave it to the parent discretion this mind set needs to change, and by no means should a parent let their 8 year old child play a +15 ma game where banter and back chatting others is part of the strategies when playing these games it’s called trash talking we all do it lmao.