In websites (such as this) where posting anonymous comments is allowed, it is usually left up to the judgment of the website owner on what content (or comment) is fit for publishing.
There is a very recent incident regarding Kathy Sierra -- Java champion, instructor, author of Creating Passionate Users, and prominent blogger.
Initial reaction: Big deal. We ladies get these things all the time. Just learn to swat them off. Right?
But when I got the gist of the incident on Kathy’s website, I felt very cold. A photo of Kathy with a noose around her neck, comments on how they wish someone would slit her throat … Someone took the time. If those anonymous posters wanted to strike bad, well they succeeded. Because even I got affected. Real bad.
In MeanKids.org, there is a very disturbing blog post about the wife of Robert Scoble (more popularly known as Microsoft’s technical evangelist). The website has been temporarily redirected, although the cached page revealed contents that are enough to disgust anyone.
It is incidents like these which make me glad that I stuck to my guns & required member registration for commenting privileges in PhilMusic.com. It is a very big site -- and with millions of page views every month, it practically forced onto us the obligation to establish some form of monitoring & control.
We may have this right called freedom of speech, but it goes tightly bound with things called responsibility & accountability.
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