<i>&gt;The problem with bullying in real life is the physical threat. You can&#x27;t ignore that guy at the bar or the school bully. On the internet you very much can.</i><p>Unless they send a SWAT team to your house that shoots you, or publish your information all over the web so that your creepy stalker ex can find where you live now and people can steal your identity and ruin your credit, or tell lies about you to your work and get you fired, or overwhelm you with thousands of hateful messages threatening personal harm to you, or do any of the other thousand things that people do, constantly, to other people on the internet that cause them harm in real life.<p>Seriously, we&#x27;re on a site that has news in the name. You read tech news and have been on the internet for a while, right? How is this still a confusing phenomenon?