Ethical Reflection On The 'Chinese Style Internet Manhunt'

The technique of'Chinese style internet manhunt'is not a mechanism to obtain the results by through computers and the internet automatically but to search the results in internet by internet users after someone asks a question in a network community. The best advantage is that the participation of internet users remedies the shortage of automatic search by computers only. The technique is based on the popularization of computers and the Web. In general,the'Chinese style internet manhunt'is a searching action for a certain object. It is a specific use with'Chinese style internet manhunt'technique.The'Chinese style internet manhunt'faces to dispute since it was born. On the one hand, it can bring the nitty-gritty to users quickly. It brings into play a function of promoting justice and revealing infamy in a sense. It is positive in constructing the nucleus of socialistic value system, defending the conscience, maintaining the public interest and developing the democracy. But on the other hand, the'Chinese style internet manhunt'is also a suspect in cyber-violence with rights of privacy, honor and portraiture. It is harmful to innocent persons when some malefactors use the'Chinese style internet manhunt'as a tool to take reprisals against someone. With this understanding, the'Chinese style internet manhunt'will challenge to societal ethic and law in promulgating private information without permission.In view of a series of societal ethic problems resulted from the'Chinese style internet manhunt', it is necessary to standardize the Chinese style internet manhunt in ethical level. The basic ethical principles of Chinese style internet manhunt are self-discipline, equilibrium, authority, and so on. The principle of self-discipline requires each internet user to follow consciousness and general moral principles. The internet users must discipline themselves strictly and make the'violent search'to'loving search'when they use the Chinese style internet manhunt in the Web. It can be taken as a final moral appeal and form basic principles of web ethnics cooperating with other ones. The principle of equilibrium refers to keep equilibrium between protecting individual privacy and right to learn the truth. The Chinese style internet manhunt must satisfy the public right to learn the truth to the highest degree or extent in the event that it must protect individual privacy as much as possible.At last, the internet users must obey the principle of authority. Come to light, the internet users commonly choose information with a'the law of authority'in the interactive and exoteric web. A person called'leader of the public voice'who have a lot of influence and authority is hoped to stand out of line in time when general public search something with the Chinese style internet manhunt and cannot discern hearsays everywhere. The leader of the public voice need to show his colors, guide the direction of the consensus and make the out-of-order search into ordered one in a certain extent. The'Chinese style internet manhunt'can minish the negative effect by through doing these.Besides the three basic ethical principles, the'Chinese style internet manhunt'needs to be supervised by technique and be restrained by law. The'Chinese style internet manhunt'can bring more benefit to human being if it is controlled in strict ethical criterions, efficient technical supervision and essential legal restraint.