Online Anonymity Lets Users Gets Nasty

March 20, 2007 By JOCELYN NOVECK, AP National Writer

(AP) -- When a California woman recently gave birth to a healthy baby just two days after learning she was pregnant, the sudden change to her life was challenging enough. What April Branum definitely didn't need was a deluge of nasty Internet comments.

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