April 24, 2006

Malkin Mania Goes Overboard

Internet "civility" has reached a new low:

After nationally syndicated columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin posted the e-mail addresses and phone numbers of three members of Students Against War, they received a flood of obscene and harassing messages from around the country, including death threats. When a liberal Web site, in retaliation, published Malkin's cell phone number and home address, a full-blown blog war ensued.

"I am now forced to remove one of my children from school and move my family," Malkin wrote Thursday in an e-mail to the Sentinel.

Let's realize the SAW press release was on the organization's website. The students did a lousy job keeping their contact information private if that was their intention. If I were Malkin I would have removed the phone numbers and e-mails upon knowing the students were leaving death threats. As being the target of such threats I would think Malkin would understand. She didn't remove the information which made her behavior ill-mannered to say the least. That doesn't excuse Lefties publishing Malkin's phone number and home address that she never publicized. Now, she feels the need to make big changes in her life. Will that shut her up? No, it will only embolden her.

A lot of people acted in a very uncivilized manner. Such behavior makes all the participants looks nasty and brutish. Like most tit-for-tats there is no winner, and no one comes out looking clean.

"Cyber War Over UCSC Protest Heats Up" [Note a correction which may or may not clarify the story.] [via Radio Equalizer]

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