I'm all for that but not so such an extreme. I have to admit that cyber bullying is a real phenomenon that really does hurt kids. That said, it's not the Intern

I'm all for that but not so such an extreme. I have to admit that cyber bullying is a real phenomenon that really does hurt kids. That said, it's not the Internet that needs to be legislated. Harassment laws are already on the books. We simply have to make sure they apply to the web instead of creating totally new laws for Internet specific harassment. When you legislate online harassment separately from other forms of harassment you create two separate worlds with potentially two different sets of rules. Harassment is harassment no matter the medium and separating it like that opens the door to terrible things like censorship. Laws governing harassment offline generally aren't so broad that they restrict free speech but somehow when it comes to the web people have this weird cognitive disconnect like somehow your rights online are different than those offline. Maybe it's the anonymity of the web that allows legislators to think of Internet users as somehow not human. I don't know.