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Providing a link to a website about X is the ethical equivalent of telling your friend where they can learn about X.
by carbocation 16y ago
Providing a link to a website about X is the ethical equivalent of telling your friend where they can learn about X.
- ig1 16y agoYou missed the critical conditional of "when the owner's asked you not to do it". A closer comparison might be passing information onto a friend, when the person who told you the information in the first place asked you not to pass it on.
- carbocation 16y agoNo, I said what I meant. The ethics of the situation may indeed be driven by the conditionals, but the isomorphism is valid across all conditionals that you might apply. Thus, you can imagine some situations in which linking (or telling a friend) is unethical, just as you can imagine others in which it's not.