My thoughts on "Fear of Blogging"

Fear of Blogging, by Dahlia Lithwick, provides clear explanations of situations in which the anonymity of the Internet has allowed for, at times, a hostile environment. The transgressions that violate inalienable legal rights to personal safety are occurring more often and with greater intensity as mass Internet communication gained popularity. She provides many examples that clearly portray the situations people's personal lives were threatened via Internet communications from unknown individuals. The possible solution to this problem follows:

If blog sites increased the amount of advertisement space for sale they would be able to increase revenue. This revenue could be then used to provide monitors which would ban the IPs (a number that identifies a particular Internet connection), email addresses, and accounts of overly zealous individuals. The creation of a new account would require an email address that could only be obtained through domains that required some form identification (service provider email, academic email, business email, etc.). This would provide a means for authorities to track potentially dangerous individuals. Regulations such as these would greatly limit personal Internet threats to individuals that actively avoided sharing personal information and/or correspondence.

Unfortunately many people tempt fate, people often provide personal information that should be kept secret in the public realm. This is one of the main dilemmas that catalyzes may of these cases of the Internet blurring the lines between personal and private.

There are too many cases that are almost unavoidable with current systems and technology.