Why the Metaverse Must be Open but Regulated
The metaverse is the newest step in the evolution of the internet, but it faces the same ethical questions that online projects have faced since the beginnings of the internet.
“As an ethicist, open source, [and open] access is always best because it facilitates more people creating, and doing so largely for the common good and social justice,” said Don Heider the executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. “Technology should generally be as widespread and accessible as humanly possible.”
“Ideally, even the governance of the metaverse would be open, such as a joint collective where you’d have governing bodies joining alongside industry groups and citizens to form a collective that would agree upon principles and standards,” Heider said.
Don Heider, executive director, quoted by Venture Beat.