I know many are skeptical about the possibilities of monitoring/ policing/ controlling, while many dont feel the need, but on the same hand we cant deny that a lot is going wrong and a lot of questionable behaviour have been witnessed. The heinous happening in this past week are another signal of how behaviours that go unchecked, unreported and uncorrected can prove to be detrimental and by then its too late.
Before someone jumps and says... they have no resemblance to internet happenings... they were behaviors as well... they went uncorrected and reported and were allowed to fester and manifested into something unthinkable.
Bullying online and getting away with it can give one the confidence to do it repeatedly and who knows if this manifests into the real life too? Just like being an anonymous writer and writing over a period of time, gives one the confidence to write openly under their own identity. While the later is a good manifestation, the former could hurt someone.
And about "monitoring cant happen"... well I say Need is the mother of invention. Everything that has been made possible is because someone first discovered a need for it. So before we sigh and say it cant be we need to acknowledge there is a need.
But for that we need to acknowledge there is a problem!!!
Edited by jules - 13 years ago
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