Internet ethics

Let's start with an example. It's Sunday and you want to cook your favorite food for your family. You cook everything and taste the dish. It's good but not so flavorful, not spiced and addictive enough that someone would want to eat it again and again. The healthy food, but you want to make it look nicer and more tastier. You check if there are any ingredients available at home. There are a few expired spice packets, some chemical food colors, some toxin sauces. You pour everything into that healthy dish to make people appreciate you. Feeling horrible to read that, right? ethics are not some fancy terms they're just about care. The care of people and the empathy for the world.

The Open Internet: Good, Bad, and the Damage We've Done

The open internet has changed the world for good, but more than that, the bad has happened. We know the world works like this, if there is good, then there is bad; if good, then evil. But knowing this and still doing harm is the most societal and generational damage can cause. But who cares, right? Growth at all cost is so hot that these things don't seem worth putting attention on. Ethics matter in everything, so in technology too. Technology shapes society, but who shapes technology? It's always in our hands to serve healthy food or make it toxin-filled and addictive. The power is always in our hands from the very first day. When we write code, design interfaces, or build algorithms, we're not just solving technical problems. We're architecting how billions of people will live, work, communicate, and think. Every design decision becomes a force multiplied across society, often in ways we never wanted or had intentions for.

The Outcomes We Never Intended

Let's look at the engineers who built engagement-driven algorithms. They thought they were optimizing for user satisfaction (honestly, God knows), but the outcomes and causes are harm to teenage mental health, spreading misinformation, and what not. This continuous algorithmic work has made everything rotten these days. Nothing feels real or connected. This is why ethics can't be an afterthought in technology development. Once millions of people depend on a system, the damage from unethical design becomes incredibly difficult to undo.

How Objective Ambitions in Entrepreneurship Ruined Society

At worst, what is the first thing when we went on the path of inventing something?

Product = Investors' money = Numbers

Where is innovation? Where is society's benefit?

The Choice We Must Make

Ethics in building technology isn't just about avoiding harm it's a choice about actively choosing to create systems that reflect our highest values and aspirations for human society.