netmeg - 7:48 pm on Mar 30, 2007 (gmt 0)

This is nothing new. Those of us who first got active in computer conferencing twenty or more years ago have seen this from the get-go - it only gets more and more attention as more and more people communicate online. I myself have taken out two PPOs over that period because of online threats. There have long been calls for some way to regulate behavior, and it never works.

Somehow there's this expectation that people should behave better online than they do out in the world. It doesn't work that way.