Unapologetic hatred

Yes – the internet does serve as a place for anonymous, honest (supposedly) reactions to the outside world, with access to people, places and things beyond your own environment.  

But when I read things that people write on the internet, website posts or comments to weblogs containing a complete and unfettered hatred for the person they direct it to, I wonder where it came from.  Was it bottled up inside of people before the internet was there to loose it upon?  The average person walked around with a maelstrom of putrid thoughts just needing an outlet? 

Or I have heard the case that the internet is turning into a stage for the minority of hate mongers in our society, that previously had outlet in only subversion and perhaps late night animal torture. 

I put forth that the hatred was always there, but the access to a medium of relation to the outside world exempt from the rule of  social response has given people an avenue of barbarianism, safe from the social consequences.