19 Mar
2007
19 Mar
'07
5:34 p.m.
Okay, I'll allow myself one more message, since it's one that isn't
getting incensed at "the other side"....
We KNOW the Internet is an overgrown TV for probably
75% of its
current users. We KNOW that, for a decade and a half now, the
Internet has been facing a huge influx of largely nontechnical people
who don't know the first thing about etiquette, and refuse to learn.
True. We know there are abusers out there.
But I don't see that as a reason to roll over for the abuse. And I
don't see it as a reason to back down from calling it abuse, even in
the face of people with the brazen gall to defend it. And I
*especially* feel that way when it's someone at least partially in our
community - like any community, we have to police our own.
If abusers hit my servers, I'm prepared to deal with them. They may
not like the ways I choose, but to me that's their problem; I feel no
particular urge to be nice to abusers.
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