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I think part of the problem is that people aren’t held accountable on the Web People say things online they would never say when disagreeing with someone at the dinner table. I think heated debate is fine, but when there are (flame wars), many people won’t take part for fear they will be attacked and bashed over the head with the (Internet-equivalent) of a steel pipe. … We don’t want our site to be sanitized, but we have the right to create a different kind of community.”

—Jim Brady, executive editor of the Washington Post’s online division, lobbies for a “No Deep Throats” policy for reader comments online.