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Classroom Bullies On The Internet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the lord-of-the-flies dept.

peter303 writes "Oldtimers are familiar with sociopaths in usenet newsgroups and chat rooms. The NY Times has an article about grade school kids who bully on the Internet. These include message bombing and slanderous web pages. The web allows one to extend bad manners from real life."

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  1. Like this: OY, SHUT YOUR CANOLI HOLE!!! by Ayanami+Rei · · Score: 0, Offtopic
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  2. Re:Excellent by Le+Marteau · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Never heard of her. Actually, I read alot of Pirsig, e.g.

    "The mythos. The mythos is insane." - Robert Pirsig

    or

    "Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better world. They are taking it further and further from that better world. Since the Renaissance these modes have worked. As long as the need for food, clothing and shelter is dominant they will continue to work. But now that for huge masses of people these needs no longer overwhelm everything else, the whole structure of reason... is no longer adequate. It begins to be seen for what it really is... emotionally hollow, esthetically meaningless and spiritually empty." - Robert Pirsig

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  3. Re:Real world should have consequences too by aardvarkjoe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Somebody please mod up the parent. I saw a couple articles about this on Google News this morning, and my first thought was "some idiot on Slashdot is going to try to paint this as the Big Mean Republicans stomping on Free Speech." At the very least, people deserve to know that there's more going on than "the first amendment is abolished only for honest people who are not allowed to ... protest peacefully on the grass in New York."

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  4. Re:Excellent by Le+Marteau · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm going to wonder out loud why people keep pretending to believe that humanity sucks so much and should just wipe itself out already.

    Because, what if awaits after death is worse? What if there is an afterlife, a judgemental afterlife.

    It is possible that people fear death so much because, instinctively, they have experienced it before (a la 'reincartaion) and really REALLY are not looking forward to it again, intuitivly. Just something to think about.

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