Internet Cancer: Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue. — Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
The internet is a breeding ground for hypocrisy of all kinds. We see it in the unsolicited emails we get from people who want our money by offering money making opportunities. We see it on websites all over the net that seduce us, play on our needs and weaknesses and tell us sob stories to gain our sympathy and pick our pockets. Everyone and anyone who has spent time on the net has seen or been a victim of this kind of cancer. The good thing about this particular hypocrisy is the ability to delete it immediately from our view. It elicits no more response from savvy net users anymore than a vague hope that - well maybe this one is the one - it gets checked out - it more than likely gets rejected. Note to all users: If it asks for money up front, hit DELETE!
The hypocrisy I see almost as often though, is the hypocrisy of forum users, stalkers, and just plain mean minded people that accuse and abuse the vulnerable, the strong, the different and those that can out talk them. These hypocrites attack you, smear you, libel you and make your life a living hell simply because they can. They make me sick. But they REALLY make me sick when they then post in their own defense! WHAT? How can anyone defend behaviour that smacks of evil and small mindness and an ego so huge that it's a wonder they don't explode all over their own computers! It boggles the mind. What is so terribly sad about it, is the fact that the target of their vitriol has no avenue of escape and no recourse of retribution. I know, I know, some of you will claim "Then just don't go where they are, stay off the net, ... etc. etc."
Get real people. We all know how addictive the net is. We have other reasons for being where we are on it besides providing an avenue of contact by these people. And the REAL question is not the 'victim' being forced to disappear, but the reasons why the victimizer DOESN'T! The net needs legislation that reflects the laws and expectations of a just society. People like those from the "Dark Side" on Mylot need to be slapped into irons and pay for their crimes against humanity and the innocent. Administrators of websites who hide behind a 'hands off' policy need to have their ad support yanked out from under them and their sites shut down until they grow up enough to realize that moderation in all things by ALL users is the only socially acceptable policy to adopt and to run a site by. To allow hypocrisy to flourish and spread and continue to destroy the lives and reputations of innocent people is to me the height of arrogance and cowardice. So people - find a hypocrite - expose a hypocrite - neutralize a hypocrite. One more cancer cell bites the dust - once cell at a time.