That's a part of it. Unfortunately, many people who understand the internet still persist in imagining that what happens on the internet is somehow less real or

That's a part of it. Unfortunately, many people who understand the internet still persist in imagining that what happens on the internet is somehow less real or less consequential than what happens in "real life". In reality the internet is a part of real life, just like movies, or literature, or the telephone, it's not a separate or different place.