Assignment: Effect of Cultural Values
Identify examples of how cultural values affect moral legitimacy and cyber ethics norms. How can cultural values, traditions, religion, the desire for higher economic status, or poor local law enforcement possibly affect the ability to regulate copyright piracy or other illicit activity globally?
Background on topic
1. IP Commission Report on the Theft of American Intellectual Property [2013 - see esp. sections on China]
2. Cyber Espionage and the Theft of U.S. Intellectual Property and Technology [2013 - video / transcripts of Congressional hearing]
Identify a couple of schools of ethics and use that information to better explain your response(s). These ethical schools of thought hold different opinions about human nature; and to an extent the different requirements for truth and honesty; among other differences. Be sure to show the strain between personal civil rights and our need for security in a virtual platform that protects anonymity of our worst offenders. The unethical know the protections afforded them and will use them to hide behind along with their other diversionary skills.