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The extensive use of digital and network technology has pushed mankind from the industrial era into the information and digital era. In the digital era, digits are becoming an extensive global phenomenon and force. The ethical culture of digital globalization has provided not only a new space for cultural exchange and␣integration among nations, but also a new environment for the formation of new global ethical principles and concepts. This article investigates a theme of scholarly concern, the theme of global ethics in the environment of the digital era.

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Bao, Z., Xiang, K. Digitalization and global ethics. Ethics Inf Technol 8, 41–47 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-006-9101-7

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