This Drives Me Nutz!

Employee Sues IBM For "Internet Addiction"
By his own admission, James Pacenza was spending too much time in Internet chat rooms, in some of them discussing sex. He goes so far as to call his interest in inappropriate Web sites a form of addiction that stems from the posttraumatic stress disorder he's suffered since returning from Vietnam. Whatever it's called, Pacenza's chat-room habit cost him his job.

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But cases like Pacenza's, which involve Internet misuse, may no longer be quite so simple, thanks to a growing debate over whether Internet abuse is a legitimate addiction, akin to alcoholism. Attorneys say recognition by a court—whether in this or some future litigation—that Internet abuse is an uncontrollable addiction, and not just a bad habit, could redefine the condition as a psychological impairment worthy of protection under the Americans with Disabilities Act

http://www.businessweek.com/print/technology/content/dec2006/tc20061214_422859.htm

This kind of stuff drives me nutz! People need to beat this back NOW, or every nanny state-sniveling-Democrat-victimologist-in-jammies will be hopping on this bandwagon, in a head long rush!