Tim Almond

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/michael_kinsley/2006/11/like_i_care.html 

This is strange. Anonymity, for better or for worse, is supposed to be one of the signature qualities of the web. As that dog in the New Yorker cartoon famously says, "On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog." The Internet is a place where you can interact with other people and have complete control over how much they know about you. Or supposedly that is the case, and virtually everybody on the Internet is committed to achieving that goal.

I’m never quite sure where people get this idea from, because in fact, one of the "signature qualities" of the internet (and by inheritance, the web) is that the packet of data you receive has the internet address that sent it.

Which means that if someone’s sending you repeated, offensive messages, it’s possible to do something about it.

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