The internet’s giants have changed the meaning of corporate social responsibility
The internet is a place where international laws are flimsy, and justice lives or dies by Facebook and Twitter’s terms of service. In this new world, corporate social responsibility has taken on an entirely different meaning, writes Phil Reilly, SEO lead at Atomic 212.
The internet is a wonderful tool, one that has changed the world in uncountable ways over the past two decades or so. But the thing about tools is that, in the wrong hands, they can be used as weapons.
While there have always been people who use the worldwide web for nefarious purposes, it seems as though in the year or so since Donald Trump was voted President of the United States, the internet has been rife with racism, hate speech and sexism.
Chuck in the fake news phenomenon, and it seems the internet has developed a reputation for being decidedly destructive rather than constructive of late.
… “changed the world in uncountable ways over the past two decades” … and, unaccountable ways as well. Nice piece, interesting to see how those lines in the sand will keep moving.