“Why I Like Vicious Online Comments”:
“They say things they would never say in the presence of flesh-and-blood human beings.”
“Some media outlets have decided they’ve had enough of the endless juvenile trolling and hate-mongering, and have either adopted a stricter moderation policy or forced would-be commenters to fill out forms supplying information that would make it easier to track their identities and ban them if they run afoul of the site’s rules”
“You see this phenomenon all over the Internet, including Salon, which, despite having some of the smartest and most articulate commenters on the Web, has also attracted its fair share of vitriol. And it’s not just in articles about lightning-rod public figures such as Barack Obama or Rush Limbaugh, whom you would expect to inspire heated, sometimes obscene or hateful comments, but in the comments threads of online material that is, in the great scheme, inconsequential, as deserving of bile, profanity and wanton viciousness as a smiley-face button or a paper flower.”
“Civilogue”
“It is time for those of us who still believe in the American experiment, who still believe that the passion of our disagreements need not overwhelm the common values that bind us, to take back the rhetoric.”
“Any time you see or read or hear anybody step over the line, call them on it. Do it politely, with kindness and consideration. But do it clearly and cleanly, with a humble explanation of what they did wrong.”
“Yes, this will require time and effort. Reply to every such example you stumble across, in person or online.”
Reasons for not having rules prohibiting what people can say on the internet:
1. People should be able to say how they feel
2. If you are willing to post something on the internet, then you are allowing people to comment on whatever it is you posted
3. Some peoples idea of what is ‘wrong’ to be on the internet, could be completely different from another person’s ‘wrong’
4. Restricting what people can and cannot will upset a lot of people and some might say it’s violating their freedom of speech
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