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by dsign 1550 days ago
> Can technology affect human morality?

This is a bad question to start the article, because the average Joe needs only two seconds to answer it in the affirmative. A society with plenty of material wealth facilitated by technology (electronics, financials, corporate law, patents, accepted practices, etc.) will consider amoral to feed a dog anything other than dog-food, while that would be a non-issue in a country where people themselves are starving because they are stuck with the wrong "societal tech" (e.g. Cuba or North Korea).

> One prominent example of how technology can impact morality is Facebook.

Ah, Facebook, obviously the most important piece of technology we have invented in the last twenty years. No, they are really not.

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Facebook is prominent, is tech and can impact morality. Exactly what the author is claiming. You are saying that it's "...obviously the most important piece of technology..." but the author does not make that claim. If you aren't familiar with a straw-man argument your last sentence is a textbook example.
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram think that they are the arbiters of morality.