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新聞站點重新考慮網上評論是否應該匿名
News Sites Rethink Anonymous Online Comments
文 / 裴平銳
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
在這是非之地，新聞站點開始反省匿名制。
In a Rude Realm, News Sites Rethink Anonymity
一開始，互聯網用戶都認為這裡的廣闊自由及數碼偽裝是默許的。大家可以於此不暴露身分地對世界暢所欲言。
早在網路仍乳臭未乾的一九九三年，《紐約客》的一則漫畫成了這種自由的象徵。畫中小黑對小花講道：「在互聯網上，沒人知道你是條狗」。多年來，該畫被無數次重印，堪稱《紐約客》漫畫之最。
From the start, Internet users have taken for granted that the territory was both a free-for-all and a digital disguise, allowing them to revel in their power to address the world while keeping their identities concealed.
A New Yorker cartoon from 1993, during the Web’s infancy, with one mutt saying to another, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog,” became an emblem of that freedom. For years, it was the magazine’s most reproduced cartoon.
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