Dyamonte Mizell

Free Write 11 

         In my opinion, this is cyberwar because it is an attack on the U.S. tech systems.  The U.S. were  attacked while Russia was the attacker. Russia planted seeds to influence american politics which is unjustifiable. On the U.S. side, this was a blindeside from a different country trying to operate on U.S. based platforms. Russia side is that they did a form of hacking to sway political views in their favor. When it comes to politics, everything is supposed to be fair. Russia invaded the election and tried to use the american people for their own gain. For the U.S., this looks terrible because if Russia can influence our elections then what more can they do. Politics should not be taken lightly and the american people should know whether their election is being tampered with. If we were to declare this a cyberwar then the american people would also want an answer from their politician leaders. This would cause people to not trust the internet anymore and leave politicians with a tough choice on how to answer the people’s questions.The business ramifications include more protection of well known public sites because businesses would now have to look out for possible tamperation of their sites. Then it will affect ads also, because of Russia’s use of the ads businesses will be less likely to let ads be on their site. Then we have the ethical standpoint, Russia strayed to bamboozle people into believing what they think is right. People should have their own opinions but they can’t if one country is using scheming tactics for their own benefit is just morally wrong.