IT PRODUCTS AND POLITICAL REVOLUTION

IT Products and Political Revolution

IT Products and Political Revolution

Introduction

The products of Information technology especially Internet has enabled to access information in no time. Internet disseminates the information around the world and anyone can retrieve it through his/her personal computer, mobile or other IT products. The argument, which we will be discussing further in the paper, is related to the use of Information Technology products in political revolution with respect to ethics. Ethical issues are inevitable in case of information available on the Internet; however, it entirely depends upon the entity using the information whether to use it for productive reasons or not.

Answering the question, is it ethical for IT vendors such as Google to promote the use of their information technology products in pursuit of political revolutions in various countries? I would say yes, I agree to the statement because sharing information, which is necessary, for the well-being of a society on the whole, is important. Technology helps in identifying the extent to which a society is segregated and how much inequality prevails in it. Moreover, what the ruling authorities and the elite class is engaged in is also unleashed through technology.

Discussion

Pros and Cons of Information Technology

In terms of making the society more aware of what political games are the rulers of a country playing on the people and are indulged in looting their assets, technology is a hand farther than the information which print media provided in the 15th century. Technology also helps in making the society more patriarchal and hierarchal. On the whole, Internet has been the most critical factor affecting these kinds of the situation because most of the times people tend to get information from Internet sources. According to Winner (2010), due to the information people acquire from Internet sources a nation becomes ...