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Wed 14 Jun, 2006 12:48 am
Some people think that netizens are making up for laws that don't cover social injustice.The internet is a good place to shame unpunished wrongdoers.What's your opinion about online posts used to damage real-life reputations?Is the Internet a good place for promoting good morals?
I don't think that is a very sound proposition. The internet is not as important as some people think it is, and it involves so many billions of people, and billions upon billions of words, that any criticism of a single individual is likely to get lost in an ocean of information. People who are sufficiently well-known that a great many comments would be made about them online are more likely to be in news media such as newspapers or television news broadcasts, which are going to be more important to their individual reputations than anything written about them online.