[jyl]

People behave 10x worse online - look at PARF.

Today's kids are growing up in the Internet, online is a huge part of their reality (not all kids, not my kids, but some kids).

Parents are unaware of the behavior online, or unable to control it (I have some friends who, for various reasons, had to monitor and restrict one kid's online activity, it involved all kinds of security software, keystroke loggers, etc - total PITA - can't just say "no computer" because high-achieving kids above a certain age need the computer for school).

Schools don't have the power to punish kids for behavior on their home computers, or it is a gray area that they have not figured out, legally or practically (can the principal of your kid's school confiscate the computer in your house? Didn't think so.)

So, it is a problem right now. Until society figures out how to deal with it.