Putting a price tag on cyber-bullying

The freedom granted by anonymity and a virtual audience has been a plague on decency

Aug 27, 2009 04:30 AM

Kathleen Parker

When Oscar Wilde observed that the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about, he could not have imagined the Internet. The wild frontier we now know and (mostly) love called the blogosphere is a not-always-OK Corral where free speech is armed and often dangerous.

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