While I was on the treadmill at the Kingsbury Club this morning, I got to see “Medfield, MA” listed on two TV shows, as Curt Shilling was interviewed about the vicious and unconscionable on-line attacks against his MHS student daughter based on his proud father post about her getting into a college, and his subsequent outing of two of those who did it.
I am concerned enough about that sort of flaming, but even more so about hackers getting in to things that they should not, that without knowing the technical issues, I am thinking that we cannot allow on-line anonymity any longer. If people are to be responsible for their on-line actions, the only way I can think to make that happen is to require the use of real names to get on-line. It is time to restructure the internet.