The Guardian: Letter: Taming the wild internet
You are right to say that Microsoft's closure of its free chatroom service should be the start of a much-needed debate as internet chat will go on elsewhere (Leader, September 24).The internet was designed as a system for information exchange between a community of trusted users, primarily academics in universities. This meant it could be a very open system with a low cost of entry. The opening up of this system to the wider world has created something of a wild-west situation....
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The Guardian: Taming the wild internet
You are right to say that Microsoft's closure of its free chatroom service should be the start of a much-needed debate as internet chat will go on elsewhere (Leader, September 24).The internet was designed as a system for information exchange between a community of trusted users, primarily academics in universities. This meant it could be a very open system with a low cost of entry. The opening up of this system to the wider world has created something of a wild-west situation....
