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In the Wild West of the Internet, there are good guys.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Dan Gillmor
Several weeks ago, a friend, David Weinberger, and I launched a small, non-commercial Web site. We called it "WordPirates" (www.wordpirates.com), the purpose of which was to remind people how some good words in our language have been hijacked by corporate and political interests.
Because we aren't the only people with ideas along these lines, we opened the site to allow anyone to add a word plus an explanation of why it should be there. As we expected, some folks used the system to make off-point, irrelevant or puerile postings, often with no explanation. We've had to prune heavily.
But pure malevolence fills some souls, and the Internet is their toxic playground. One creep found a security flaw in the software powering the site and exploited it. This person posted programming code inside a comment form _ some HTML that took users to an unaffiliated Web page containing one of the most disgusting photographs I've ever seen.
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