[camillomiller]

Digital culture of a nation is fundamental for this to happen. The day before yesterday a 14yo girl took her life here in Italy. She was being cyber-bullied by some other anonymous teenagers on her ask.fm page. I think that's an unfortunate situation that relates more to child care than the Internet, and I know this single event can't be a case against anonymity. It's obviously not a case pro-anonymity either.

Try to explain that complexity to my 62yo father that gets angry because people are free to do what they want and be as mean as they can without facing any dire consequence because of the internet.

Journalists were not that good at explaining that IPs exist and those people who mocked the girl and told her to take her life will eventually be caught.

My father, like the majority of Italian people now gets the idea that ask.fm is a Wild West of anonymity where you can actually say whatever you want. Certainly, it's not that. Yet, it's not a place that "fosters" creativity.