Online hostilities are common – they can happen to any twitter user, blogger, or anybody who is connected to the internet. Behaviors of online hostility are usually signified by the use of personal attacks against the other person, despite no previous arguments that were directly targeted at them. I believe that the internet is a great medium for free speech, but to what extent does free speech gives you the right to be hostile to one another? I wonder, did online civility died? Or has it ever existed in the first place? Continue reading “Under the Cloak of Anonymity”
Under the Cloak of Anonymity
Online hostilities are common – they can happen to any twitter user, blogger, or anybody who is connected to the internet. Behaviors of online hostility are usually signified by the use of personal attacks against the other person, despite no previous arguments that were directly targeted at them. I believe that the internet is a great medium for free speech, but to what extent does free speech gives you the right to be hostile to one another? I wonder, did online civility died? Or has it ever existed in the first place?
Notes from an Indonesian Policy Wonk 