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What is it about e-mail, the Web, and Usenet that makes people speak so harshly to one another? To paraphrase Rodney King, “Why can’t we all just get along online?”

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© 2004 Greg Holden

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Holden, G. (2004). Tongue Lashings in Babylon. In: Internet Babylon: Secrets, Scandals, and Shocks on the Information Superhighway. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0684-2_14

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0684-2_14

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