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With the rapid proliferation of the Internet and lack of central control, Internet vigilantism or... more With the rapid proliferation of the Internet and lack of central control, Internet vigilantism or Netilantism has posed a difficult paradox within ethical considerations that include breach of individual's privacy, morality, freedom of speech and paucity of the laws in curbing it. After the advent of social media people often vent out their resentment through the Internet to a certain extent to punish societal offenders and for social control of the people by means of human flesh search engine (HFSE) or doxing and collective action with a view to be brought to justice. This Netilantism phenomenon involves scam baiting, public shaming, distributed denial of service attack, google bombing, identity theft activism, anti-pedophile activism and counter-terrorism. The Netilantism engages concerted activity carried out by the Internet users in order to search for disappeared persons, or punish wrongdoers or corrupt government officials. It is also aimed to verify the credibility of statements made by the government authorities or people. Online vigilantism is going unabated as the so-called vigilantes are able to keep safe their anonymity that bolsters them unhurt from the backlash of their acts. The interrelation between freedom and anonymity enabled the Internet vigilantes to give rise to an unruly attitude to make right the actions of the miscreants and to take revenge against those who violated the prevalent laws. Despite the anonymity that facilitates privacy to speak liberally in public without the fear of being noticed, yet it can vitiate the privacy by sanctioning the Internet vigilantes to march into the privacy of others with ease. While the up-to-date laws pertaining to the Internet allowed a kind of amnesty for the Internet vigilantes, they may pose a threat to the privacy protection of others as Internet vigilantism results real world-effects. The vigilantes are deviant in nature and violate the existing laws through their actions on the Internet that have considerable consequences in real world. It is a double-edged sword, empowers Internet users to confront democratic authorities on the one hand and infringement of personal privacy on the other hand. This paper is aimed to discuss the ethical issues emerging due to Internet vigilantism, as well as possible solutions.
With the rapid proliferation of the Internet and lack of central control, Internet vigilantism or... more With the rapid proliferation of the Internet and lack of central control, Internet vigilantism or Netilantism has posed a difficult paradox within ethical considerations that include breach of individual's privacy, morality, freedom of speech and paucity of the laws in curbing it. After the advent of social media people often vent out their resentment through the Internet to a certain extent to punish societal offenders and for social control of the people by means of human flesh search engine (HFSE) or doxing and collective action with a view to be brought to justice. This Netilantism phenomenon involves scam baiting, public shaming, distributed denial of service attack, google bombing, identity theft activism, anti-pedophile activism and counter-terrorism. The Netilantism engages concerted activity carried out by the Internet users in order to search for disappeared persons, or punish wrongdoers or corrupt government officials. It is also aimed to verify the credibility of statements made by the government authorities or people. Online vigilantism is going unabated as the so-called vigilantes are able to keep safe their anonymity that bolsters them unhurt from the backlash of their acts. The interrelation between freedom and anonymity enabled the Internet vigilantes to give rise to an unruly attitude to make right the actions of the miscreants and to take revenge against those who violated the prevalent laws. Despite the anonymity that facilitates privacy to speak liberally in public without the fear of being noticed, yet it can vitiate the privacy by sanctioning the Internet vigilantes to march into the privacy of others with ease. While the up-to-date laws pertaining to the Internet allowed a kind of amnesty for the Internet vigilantes, they may pose a threat to the privacy protection of others as Internet vigilantism results real world-effects. The vigilantes are deviant in nature and violate the existing laws through their actions on the Internet that have considerable consequences in real world. It is a double-edged sword, empowers Internet users to confront democratic authorities on the one hand and infringement of personal privacy on the other hand. This paper is aimed to discuss the ethical issues emerging due to Internet vigilantism, as well as possible solutions.