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COMMENT OR ABUSE? -
"Jane, you igorant slut."
This is worse. A lot worse.
*Messageboards and blogs are overflowing with cuss words, taunts and vile personal abuse. But why? I went online to find out.
..visit an internet messageboard and gawp at the sheer volume of bitchy sniping and grotesque insults... these are places in which all formalities seem to be waived in favour of a stream of ignorant personal abuse. What was once hailed as a forum for open debate and the democratisation of opinion has turned into a load of people threatening to sh*t on each other's keyboards. It's great.*
+ So, this seems to be a universal problem. But, surely, Colonel Muckluck would not approve of this method of investigation. And Bob "The Pulp" Norman is probably clutching his heart right now if he's read this piece.
:: Going Postal by Tim Jonze ::
-- UK Guardian --
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