First a confession. Back in the nineties, I was a pioneer in the first Internet gold rush.
Quotations
It's ignorance meets egoism meets bad taste meets mob rule. On steroids. [p. 1]
[T]he moral fabric of our society is being unravelled by Web 2.0. It seduces us into acting on our most deviant instincts and allows us to succumb to our most destructive vices. [p. 163]
Every defunct record label and round of newspaper downsizing are a consequence of "free" user-generated Internet content - from Craigslist's free advertising, to free music videos, to free encyclopedias, to free weblogs. [p. 27]
In a twisted kind of Alice in Wonderland, down-the-rabbit-hole logic, Silicon Valley visionaries such as Stanford law professor and Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig and cyberpunk William Gibson laud the appropriation of intellectual property. [p. 24]
