Rape or Internet Terrorism?

OK, I'm aware that this may be a stretch, but I am still not sold that Mr. Bungle has committed rape. For the matter, I am still not sold that internet rape is even possible, sexual harassment if anything. This is not to say that I am condemning his actions, I just think this atrocity shouldn't take the name of rape for several reasons. 

For starters, I find that calling this situation a rape very disrespectful to those who have been actually been raped in real life. Rape is not a term that I am comfortable just throwing around. Real life rape usually involves a person who uses force and violence to have some form of sex with another against their will. Not only is there the physical damage done, but there is that sense of insecurity of ones self after a rape, an insecurity that makes the victim change the way they live their daily life's. There is no such thing as "virtual rape." At anytime, these people could have at least walked away an not have subjected themselves to the words the Mr. Bungle was saying through his Voodoo program. If one thinks that any real life victim of rape could walk away then they just do not understand the severity of rape. Like I stated earlier, I am not condemning the actions of Mr. Bungles, I am simply arguing Dibbell's use of the word rape. So if it isn't rape, there has to be another term that Dibbell could use to replace rape.

The first thing I thought of when I read this was sexual harassment, but then I thought to myself that it is bigger then just virtual sexual harassment. LambdaMoo is a fully function-able community that has values and beliefs that can be found in communities worlwide, virtual or real world. Mr. Bungles actions didn't just affect a single user, it affected an entire community. It left the tight-knit group living in fear every time they logged on to the LambdaMoo servers. In todays day and world, post 9/11 that is, the term terrorism is thrown around a lot. Now, it is tough to pinpoint the exact definition of what terrorism is, but I have formed my own opinion of what it is; Any action where a person or a group of people have gone out of their way to make another group of people afraid to live their daily lives. If we use this definition, then I see no reason why Mr. Bungles actions should not be classified as a cyperterrorism. He left this community living in fear to the point where they had to change the way they operated on a daily basis. Simialar to the way the United States changed many of their laws after 9/11 (the way we fly, the Sarbanes-Oxley act, etc.), the LambdaMoo community was forced to changed they lived in their lives within this virtual world. I don't disagree with any of the opinions or t he way that Dibbell decided to tell this story, I just disagree with the decision to refer to this incident as a rape, rather I'd prefer to see this called a form of cyber terrorism or at the very least, an ugly case of sexual harassment.