Nothing is allowed on the net. Everything is accepted--by somebody, somewhere. There are two hundred million people on the net, and some of them are bound to be as crazy as you. A few are even crazier.
“Allowed” implies “permissions”, and you don’t have to ask anyone’s permission before going ahead with your own favorite perversion. The “rules of the net” are not encoded in law, nor enforced by the local gestapo. Yet.
Civil law is a different story, of course. The laws of libel and assault should apply as much to the net as to any other conversational medium. Would you say this over the telephone? In a letter? On the bulletin board outside your local grocery? If it’s legal there, it’s probably legal here. And if it’s illegal there, it’s probably illegal here, if anyone decides to enforce it. But “illegal” means simply that if you do it, someone with a gun is going to kick your butt into prison. You’re still allowed to do it: just be prepared for the consequences.
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