Larry I agree with you about responsibility. I know, face to face a lot of folks from here and am still a situational a$$hole in person. Which means, in any given situation I have a tendency to become one.
Luckily, most who are too cowardly to do something face to face are also those who become real big strong folks behind a keyboard.
What happens when a website decides not to moderate. Or the moderators suck and don't do their job. What then? Who would make them moderate?
Pay phones were taken out of nearly everyplace because they don't get used and cost too much to maintain with the advent of cell. Before that, drop money in the machine, dial a number, say something horrible, hang up and walk away. 65 years of pay phones on every corner, available to every crackpot and pervert who had a dime.
1977 or 78 I think in the NE. We had to forced bus the kids. Bomb threats and death treats every day, sometimes every hour via phone in that time of unrest.
Isn't that just as scary? Isn't that person just as twisted? I don't think we should blame phones then anymore than the internet now. And we should not give up our rights to privacy under any circumstances.
No the internet should not be reigned in, criminals should be arrested when possible.
We just had a case here in San Antonio. A 15 year old on his x-box talked about shooting up a school. A guy from Canada called it in. The IP was traced, it was investigated and he is arrested. Done deal. Must be magic that we can clear this kind of stuff when the law enforcement agencies have the will to do it.
