Fox News report on Todd Barselow’s petition.

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Call of the Wild

Comment and review sections online are often rough and uncivil places.

Now some people are calling for an important change unmasking the anonymous contributors.

A petition on Change.org is calling for Amazon to make people attach their names to comments and reviews.

The cause is gathering support, with nearly 5,000 signatures, including New York Times best-selling author Anne Rice, who took to Facebook to call out the anti-author gangster bullies.

A recent study at the University of Houston supports the link between anonymity and hateful language online.

The research looked at thousands of comments on news sites and found that anonymous commenters were almost twice as likely to use vulgar language.

We applaud Anne for bringing so much attention to this issue.  Thank you, Anne!

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