Comments on: Shocking update: people do bad things anonymously on the internet http://punkassblog.com/2007/11/01/shocking-update-people-do-bad-things-anonymously-on-the-internet/ Sun, 20 Nov 2011 04:59:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: punkass marc http://punkassblog.com/2007/11/01/shocking-update-people-do-bad-things-anonymously-on-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-53403 punkass marc Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:11:12 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2007/11/01/shocking-update-people-do-bad-things-anonymously-on-the-internet/#comment-53403 "and oh, the horror, and whatnot." That is the tightest summary of this hysteria I've seen. “and oh, the horror, and whatnot.”

That is the tightest summary of this hysteria I’ve seen.

]]> By: elyzabethe http://punkassblog.com/2007/11/01/shocking-update-people-do-bad-things-anonymously-on-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-53401 elyzabethe Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:00:04 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2007/11/01/shocking-update-people-do-bad-things-anonymously-on-the-internet/#comment-53401 oh, there was the funniest Law & Order SVU about this a few weeks back (L&O being a measure of cultural zeitgeist and all that), where the detectives were all up in arms because <i>you mean a grown person can make their avatar look like a kid? and then other grown people pay this kid avatar to have sex with them?</i> and oh, the horror, and whatnot. oh, there was the funniest Law & Order SVU about this a few weeks back (L&O being a measure of cultural zeitgeist and all that), where the detectives were all up in arms because you mean a grown person can make their avatar look like a kid? and then other grown people pay this kid avatar to have sex with them? and oh, the horror, and whatnot.

]]> By: Esme http://punkassblog.com/2007/11/01/shocking-update-people-do-bad-things-anonymously-on-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-53358 Esme Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:09:40 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2007/11/01/shocking-update-people-do-bad-things-anonymously-on-the-internet/#comment-53358 Ah yes, a scathing investigation of pedophilia on SecondLife. Surely, this is a problem requiring immediate attention. Unlike, say, actual child trafficking, actual sex tourism, and actual use of children for prostitution. Pshhh, the rape of brown children by white business men in countries we don't usually go to is so boooooring. Look, the internet! Ah yes, a scathing investigation of pedophilia on SecondLife. Surely, this is a problem requiring immediate attention. Unlike, say, actual child trafficking, actual sex tourism, and actual use of children for prostitution. Pshhh, the rape of brown children by white business men in countries we don’t usually go to is so boooooring. Look, the internet!

]]> By: Amanda Marcotte http://punkassblog.com/2007/11/01/shocking-update-people-do-bad-things-anonymously-on-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-53346 Amanda Marcotte Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:34:50 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/2007/11/01/shocking-update-people-do-bad-things-anonymously-on-the-internet/#comment-53346 I wish a dispassionate examination of this issue were possible. Nothing shuts down rational discussion like invoking child porn. If we knew more about what people are thinking when they do stuff like this, we could probably as a society figure out the damage and how to stop it better, but the moral panic issues preclude that a lot. I wish a dispassionate examination of this issue were possible. Nothing shuts down rational discussion like invoking child porn. If we knew more about what people are thinking when they do stuff like this, we could probably as a society figure out the damage and how to stop it better, but the moral panic issues preclude that a lot.

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