The Internet is a Freaky Place

I was going through my daily news reads today and came across this one
on Newsbusters
. It caught my attention because it was about O'Reilly ETech
, which was a conference I had considered attending this year. There's usually at least a few interesting things that come up each year and thought it would be educational. However, when I found out one of the speakers stayed home
because she was receiving death threats on her blog
and in other blogs, that's just freaky.

I don't know Kathy Sierra and I don't particularly care for the Head First series of books by O'Reilly, but what kind of a pathetic human being makes death threats? I hope the person or persons who perpetrated these death threats
are caught and prosecuted. It's illegal and the Internet must not provide any protection from this kind of behavior.

Cheers.