This message board has been referred to as a blog before. It is in a way. I consider this story a corner of the world thing. Where the internet is vast, this is an internal struggle on an island. Maybe.

But then again there are perpetrators involved in this. I know that you will not get at this until saturday Dani, that is cool. But until then I'll ask you and others to think about what I have said about anonymity. There are issues on each side of it, many talk about security. But in the case of security it did nothing for Kathy's safety net, her life and livelihood, and her sanity. Now she lives in fear.

There is always a way, people find it. But if anonymity was banned, it would be a felony or misdemeanor to do such an act in hiding. However the policy makers of the internet would want to make it.

But had that been in effect I don't think cyber bullying would be a problem.

Today even the incredibly stupid can be a cyber bully. It is TOO easy for them. There is no hacking involved.

Back in '96 in my pre windows alt.whatever newsgroup days there was talk of changing headers in order to hide. Even then I weighed in against such things.

Making us own what we do or say online is important as far as I am concerned. Many people troll and spam, and in this case here  do much worse, but not being able to hide behind a curtain, they may be less than likely.

I will say here what I said earlier today that cowards are brave when they can hide behind the curtain of anonymity.

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