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<blockquote data-quote="totoro" data-source="post: 29355" data-attributes="member: 3155"><p>Cruelty finds home on the Internet</p><p></p><p>Anonymity probably helps fuel nasty comments</p><p></p><p>Jocelyn Noveck</p><p>Associated Press</p><p>March 23, 2007</p><p></p><p>When a California woman recently gave birth to a healthy baby just two days after learning she was pregnant, the sudden change to her life was challenging enough.</p><p></p><p>What April Branum definitely didn't need was a deluge of nasty Internet comments.</p><p></p><p>Postings on message boards made cracks about Branum's weight (about 400 pounds one reason she says she didn't realize sooner she was pregnant). They also analyzed her housekeeping ability, based on a photo of her home.</p><p></p><p>And they called her names. "A pig is a pig," one person wrote. Another suggested that she "go on the show 'The Biggest Loser.' "</p><p></p><p>"The thing that bothered me most was, people assumed because I am overweight, I'm going to be a bad mom," Branum says. "And that is not one little bit true."</p><p></p><p>It was yet another example of how the Internet and the anonymity it affords has given a public stage to people's basest thoughts, ones that in earlier eras likely never would have traveled past the water cooler, the kitchen table or the next barstool.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="totoro, post: 29355, member: 3155"] Cruelty finds home on the Internet Anonymity probably helps fuel nasty comments Jocelyn Noveck Associated Press March 23, 2007 When a California woman recently gave birth to a healthy baby just two days after learning she was pregnant, the sudden change to her life was challenging enough. What April Branum definitely didn't need was a deluge of nasty Internet comments. Postings on message boards made cracks about Branum's weight (about 400 pounds one reason she says she didn't realize sooner she was pregnant). They also analyzed her housekeeping ability, based on a photo of her home. And they called her names. "A pig is a pig," one person wrote. Another suggested that she "go on the show 'The Biggest Loser.' " "The thing that bothered me most was, people assumed because I am overweight, I'm going to be a bad mom," Branum says. "And that is not one little bit true." It was yet another example of how the Internet and the anonymity it affords has given a public stage to people's basest thoughts, ones that in earlier eras likely never would have traveled past the water cooler, the kitchen table or the next barstool. [/QUOTE]
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