Barbarians at the Keyboard

摘要

By the mid-'90s, hate speech and pornography had proliferated on Usenet, the biggest online forum at the time. The U.S. government threatened to regulate it with the Communications Decency Act.During the 2008 Democratic primary, Obama and Clinton backers traded vicious racist and sexist slurs on blogs such as Daily Kos. "No matter who wins," wrote The Hotline, "it will be a long healing process."In 2008 when the New York Times Magazine ran "Exposed," a self-indulgent article by blogger Emily Gould, readers posted 1,216 largely hateful comments before the thread was dismantled, a rarity for the Times.