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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!news.nd.edu!bsu-cs!bsu-ucs.uucp!yang.earlham.edu!jessec
  2. From: jessec@yang.earlham.edu
  3. Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
  4. Subject: Re: cyberspace society
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov17.122003.20531@yang.earlham.edu>
  6. Date: 17 Nov 92 17:20:03 GMT
  7. References: <Dya6TB1w165w@west.darkside.com> <92321.094348RHASKINS@UMAB.BITNET> <168A1A998.SMCMILLN@NUACVM.ACNS.NWU.EDU>
  8. Organization: Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana
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  11. In article <168A1A998.SMCMILLN@NUACVM.ACNS.NWU.EDU>, 
  12. SMCMILLN@NUACVM.ACNS.NWU.EDU writes: 
  13. > In article <92321.094348RHASKINS@UMAB.BITNET>
  14. > Robert Haskins <RHASKINS@UMAB.BITNET> writes:
  15.  
  16. >>I often wonder how issues surrounding value systems could be
  17. >>enhanced/altered/rendered insignificant through a cyberspace
  18. >>environment -- some examples:  sexual preference, religious
  19. >>intolerance, capitalistic greed, etc.
  20. >>
  21. >>Bob
  22. > I've gotta agree with Bob on this, especially his point about
  23. > the negation of value systems applicable in face to face/ voice
  24. > to voice interaction when interacting on the Net. I'm new to all
  25. > this, and the one thing that has really impressed me is how there
  26. > is almost no sense of the identity to other people on the Net beyond
  27. > what they put in. Virtual Egalitarianism? Any thoughts?
  28.  
  29.    Among many other things, I remember being mildly sexually harassed 
  30. online by someone who thought I was female.
  31.  
  32.  
  33.    --Jesse.
  34.