It used to be called netiquette but the term it’s derived from, having died an ignominious death, judging by the defecating in the streets, the knifings etc. … well any sort of ethics by late Gen X to Gen Zee or anyone woke, are a thing of the past.

But with some oldies, new to the net in the last few years … their eyes light up … one trick is to read something, wait a halfday or day, then run it, altered, as if it’s their own.

Now … what do net ethics entail? Hmmmm, on a scoop of some kind, yes … you must attribute … I try to do that within the screenshot.

On most fayre, already widely reported, just go for it … it would have to be a greedy n’er-do-well who tries to make a drama of those and I respond, on those rare occasions, with Arkell v Pressdram.

Quotes definitely need attribution … sometimes I just run the url behind the name in the text.

However … and this is a big however … often, esp. in my case, the blogger does not wish to be associated with me, thank you very much … not respectable, you see, one of those konspiracy truthers dontchaknow. Even one of those farrighters. Now I can fully ustd a fellow pundit not wishing my name tainting him or her … there’s such a thing as respektability, right?

Yet there are still (cough) net ethics.