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Journal of Information, Technology and Society 2003(2) 65 Educational Enlightenments from Internet Ethics Issues Ji-Xiang Lin Graduate Institute of Education, National Changhua University of Education, postgraduate cloudwander@.tw Abstract With the rapid development of computer technology and the advent of internet, our society is facing violent changes. Every user can make a connection with others by computers and network to build quite a few virtual communities as our groups in our real society in which we can express emotions, deliver opinions, thoughts and so on; however, internet’s traits such as anonymity, dissemination make users cause damage to other people easily. Therefore, it seems necessary to cover issues about internet ethics into our curriculum and education. If we can understand relative issues regarding internet ethics, it is possible for us to avoid hurting others and violating law while employing computers and network. Keywords: Cyberspace, Internet Ethics, Educational Enlightenment 1. Introduction With the rapid development of computer technology and the advent of network, our society is facing unprecedented changes. At the beginning of internet development in the 1970s, each network only could make connection to 256 computers, internet was able to make connection to at most 25 networks, so about hundreds of computers could connect one another and there were about thousands of people using it. However, Castells po