Comments on: The Internet Demonised http://www.thecooler.info/technology/86.html/ Technology articles and news by Dawn Ahukanna and Anni Poulsen Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:52:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Anni http://www.thecooler.info/technology/86.html/#comment-185 Anni Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:59:43 +0000 http://www.thecooler.info/technology/86.html/#comment-185 In the case of the Online Rape Plot, I don't understand, why the internet is being blamed for what these men were planning to do? <strong>Thanks</strong> to the internet, their conversations were monitored and they were stopped before they could carry out their hideous crime. If they had had the same conversation in a pub for example, most likely no one would have heard them and they wouldn't have been stopped. I agree, this whole "big, bad internet" theme is not just dumb, it is getting boring too. How about tackling these <strong>big, bad people</strong> instead! In the case of the Online Rape Plot, I don’t understand, why the internet is being blamed for what these men were planning to do?

Thanks to the internet, their conversations were monitored and they were stopped before they could carry out their hideous crime. If they had had the same conversation in a pub for example, most likely no one would have heard them and they wouldn’t have been stopped.

I agree, this whole “big, bad internet” theme is not just dumb, it is getting boring too. How about tackling these big, bad people instead!

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