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29 February 2016

## Internet Morality: Why We Need Digital Commandments

Internet Morality: Why? Ah, the internet—a vast, chaotic cosmos where pixels dance like drunken stars and every click echoes through the ether of human connection. But what, pray tell, is "Internet Morality"? And who died and made me the cosmic arbiter of it all? Well, in this gloriously undemocratic digital realm, I crowned myself. Why? Because chaos reigns supreme without a guide, and someone's got to play the reluctant shepherd. My entire professional existence has been woven into the web'…