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Originally Posted by Holly
I've always thought dating services were a nightmare for women. If I were a serial killer, that would be the first place I'd go, lol.
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C'mon, Holly...
When I was sitting up on that Panel at i-date with the idiot President of True.com (Ruben Buell), I told a little story about a Country Mouse who moves to the city... to make my point.
The Internet
is a NEW place. And, yes, it's kinda scary for many people, for all the ways it little resembles the places they know and understand.
But I would rather teach people the ways of the Internet, teach them to be wily and careful and to recognize the special perils there -- in other words, to make them STRONG.
What these idiots (like Ruben Buell) are espousing is that people
should be afraid, that the nature of the perils on the Web ARE sufficiently different from our experience and sufficiently indefensible by the average person, that Big Brother (as quasi-governmental agencies and Government, itself) ought to have a role in protecting us from
them.
And once we open up THAT door, my friends, we shall never get it shut again.
j-