The Spiritual Pollution of the Blogosphere

To continue the theme of the last two posts the Maverick Philosopher Bill Vallicella just turned off comments on his blog, he writes:

“To borrow an excellent phrase from the U. K. reader, “the vacuous and insolent wreckers who infest blogs,” ought to be banned. They should not be given a forum, and if a blogger does, then he encourages their bad behavior. Trouble is, most commenters are of the vacuous and insolent sort. So the easiest method is to allow no comments. The blogger thereby saves himself a lot of trouble and what might be termed ‘spiritual pollution.”

Banishing anonymity on the internet will go a long way in fixing this plague and discouraging the common morons.

• Paul Carr versus the Internet Anonymity – Manifesto
• Paul Carr debuts at TechCrunch
• Laura at 11D on the State of the Blogosphere

Tagged as: anonymity, blogosphere, comments, internet