Considering all the potential risks they can face there, it’s right that parents should be concerned about their children’s safety on the internet. But in developing protective attitudes towards their kids online, parents can sometimes be blind to those kids’ own capacity to make things unpleasant for others. For many young people, the anonymity provided by the internet presents an irresistible temptation. It gives them the power to be deliberately disruptive and hurtful to others with no effective sanction.
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