VERSION|0.5.1|SUBJECT|The Big Chief Rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks, Baron Aldgate  |CONTENT|[b]Rating[/b] 1 out of 5 (Not platitudinous)

[url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap130809.html][img=images/2013/08/pic130809.jpg popup=false float=right][/url]The BBC's lawyers won't allow me to mention Twitter or ask.fm, so let's just call them two popular social networking sites. They are in the news because of cyber bullying. On Twitter, prominent women have received vicious threats, while ask.fm has been linked to the death of [url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/why-dont-you-kill-yourself-hannah-smiths-grieving-father-calls-for-halt-to-sinister-world-of-internet-abuse-8747523.html]at least four teenagers[/url]. 

The technology may be new, but the use of words as weapons is not. With the ability to attack people anonymously, and little chance of being identified, bullies feel free to inflict whatever pain they choose. There were always anonymous letter writers in the past, but at least their comments were made in private, not published across the world for everyone to see.

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Gyges]Greek myth[/url] wondered whether, free from social constraints, people would act morally. The internet seems to provide the answer. The Big Book of Magic Stuff has authors with similar concerns. They warn that evil speech harms the speaker, the victim and those who listen.

Free speech does not mean the freedom to abuse and bully others.

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