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Friday, February 15, 2008

Why I Love the Internet: Part 4,562,992

Here’s what I love about the Internet–a new way to thwart bullies without getting beaten up.
This is a video that is getting a lot of play, which shows a really agitated policeman haranguing a 14-year-old kid, who was skateboarding at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.
The officer–a 17-year veteran named Salvatore Rivieri–went verbally ballistic without, as you will [...]

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Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »

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Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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