How to deal with the hotbed of hatred that goes by the name of the Internet.
CYBER BULLYING has been much in the news of late. And it spawned a fresh set of stories after the wife of the Republican contender for the US Presidency, Melania Trump, gave a robotic stump speech to announce that she would work on combatting cyber bullying if she ever became First Lady. Once we had stopped pointing and laughing – and asking her if she had ever met her husband, the Insulter-In-Chief, Donald Trump – it was difficult to disagree with the substance of what Melania said.
You only have to spend ten minutes on the Internet to realise what a hotbed of hatred it has become. Clearly, the anonymity that the Net offers does something strange to people. It brings forth their worst instincts. It encourages them to spew abuse and insults from their safe havens in front of their keyboards. It turns otherwise rational and sane human beings into a raging mob spitting expletives and vomiting bile. It makes them think nothing of throwing stuff at you that they would never dream of saying to your face.
So, yes, Melania had it right when she spoke about how “We have to find a better way to talk to one another, to disagree with each other, to respect each other.”
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