Ottawa

Dean Del Mastro vs. The Internet

The Conservative MP suggests Parliament should think about dealing with anonymous Internet commenters.

One of the best ways to end on-line and electronic bullying, libel and slander would be to force people posting hurtful comments to properly identify themselves. This morning I read comments on a news story posted on an electronic news publication, many of them could only be described as hateful rants. The common denominator is that none of them identified the person that wrote them; this strikes me as something that parliament should address.

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