Parenting In The Age Of Internet Punks

The online teasing of a trash-talking 11-year-old girl gets uglier and uglier.  Alexis Madrigal has a poignant take on the enraged reaction of her father (now removed from YouTube but preserved in Internet parody):

[Y:]ou know, there was a time when these kinds of threats worked, andmaybe it was a good thing. Words like that from a dad just might put ascare into some cruel 13-year-olds on a mission to ruin some kid's lifefor fun. In the old days, dads could handle harassment of their...