njcommuter
2008-05-23 16:48:11
The issue isn’t the Internet. The issue is that one person hounded another to death. This is a lot like the gun control craziness: people confuse the means with the act. It is reasonable to argue that using a firearm to commit murder worsens the crime, since it was using a tool of power to commit the crime. The same might be said of the Internet. But the place to start is with the crime, not with the tool. And this is especially true with the Internet, whose value to learning is demonstrated by sites like wikipedia and mathworld and whose value to human freedom is demonstrated by the struggle of repressive regimes to restrict it.
