"You may have heard about the Kathy Sierra case, which has been spreading in the blogosphere like wildfire for the past couple of days. In case you haven’t heard about the news, here’s a quick synopsis. Sierra, a prominent female blogger, decided to withdraw from participating in a workshop at O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference and decided to stop writing on her blog because of the death threats and crude sexual comments that she has received in the course of four weeks. Obviously these comments were made anonymously on Sierra’s blog and on two other sites.
By killing anonymity, I’m willing to bet that the Internet will suddenly become a more respectable medium and yield mature discussions. Sure, some of us have opinions, and we don’t want to share our real identity for legitimate reasons, but unfortunately, some people are too focused on ruining the environment for the rest of us. It’s like they say, it only takes a small group of people to ruin it for everyone. It’s a pity, really.
As much as I don’t like my own suggestion, this seems to be the only way to control these atrociously nasty comments towards innocent folks. It will be painful, sure, but we don’t have much of a choice."
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http://www.cooltechzone.com/Departments/Columns/Make_Internet_Better_By_Killing_Anonymity_200703292821/
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