Many bloggers do a fair amount of attacking verbally things that they do not approve of and they expend a large number of words attacking people that they disagree with. Character assassination on the Internet is way too common and many a very good person has been slandered in unfair ways.
Still, we all want the Internet to be censorship free, and we all agree the fewer rules the better, but if folks are slandered by anonymous bloggers; is that really fair? Is that what we aspire to? Is this all the better we can do with the greatest communication device ever created for humankind? I think not and let me explain why this issue is so problematic.
Bloggers who blog anonymously and attack others, are using the same techniques as guerrillas and terrorists use. They character assassinate leaders or influencers as unfit to lead, while concealing their identities. They often operate in the shadows and attempt to destabilize the norms and flows of society and civilizations.
Bloggers have been granted a tremendous gift of free speech on the Internet, and yet with such a great privilege or some call a "right" it indeed also comes with a bit of responsibility. Unfortunately, far too often this responsibility is taken far too lightly and far too many people are being slandered by anonymous bloggers.
If we are to use the Internet to unite mankind, then surely we need to chill out on the personal attacks, otherwise we defeat the mission and purpose of social networking and the value it could have brought us, so please think on this.
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