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I always ask "What are you going to do? Type me to death?"
I like that.
I don't generally have a problem dealing with people online, but I do find the lack of accountability annoying at times. Government control is out of the question in my mind (and likely not even possible), so I don't know what the solution is. Probably something like Facebook. At best there will always be two intarwebs. The privately owned online services like Facebook where people are more or less accountable and there is recourse for threatening/hate speech, and the public wilds of the free unregulated internet, like the wild wild west that is Usenet. Like Ron said you can still track idiots down with IP addresses, but that won't always happen.
Saying "just ignore it" or "get over it" or "grow a thicker skin" is not the right answer. The internet will only become more integrated into our lives to a point where (perhaps not this generation or even the next) we won't be able to simply ignore it.
Last edited by FriarJohn; 02/16/2010 7:33 PM.
