Since when did it become acceptable to assail people you don’t know online? It happens every minute of the day on social media and news sites. Many of these verbal assaults are unprovoked and unwarranted.
It’s cowardly to hide behind an Anonymous or fictitious name. It’s spineless to make unsubstantiated accusations and malign someone’s character for sport. It’s childish to resort to name calling simply because you disagree with their point of view.
Even in mainstream media the Comments section following news articles is laced with churlish remarks. The topic of the news story is often irrelevant. Certain unnamed or code named participants hijack the conversation and turn it into an ugly partisan political diatribe. It’s disturbing and appalling.
Please stop or sign off
If you are that insecure in your beliefs that a person from an opposing viewpoint so unsettles you, then perhaps you should sign off the Internet and put your blinders on or put your head back in the sand.
Oops. I apologize for that unprovoked attack.
Nice article Brian. This won't get fixed until the web has a better overall web-wide authentication method. Probably some years out I think. Anonymity causes lots of society problems - including road rage, problems in schools (because they are so big kids don't know each other), problems with kids (because parents can't know the kids in the neighborhood even). No easy answers - air conditioning and TV hasn't helped. Dummification of society isn't helping either - the movie Idiocracy seems to be coming truer every day.
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