"... 'I observed myself getting into bizarre pissing matches. It's just astonishing how it takes hold of you. It's like a demon or something.' ... also noticed

"... 'I observed myself getting into bizarre pissing matches. It's just astonishing how it takes hold of you. It's like a demon or something.' ... also noticed a disturbing tendency among the champions of the internet's "open culture" to humiliate and attack those who had lost out in the online revolution - the musicians, artists, journalists and others ..." Valid. "... Lanier believes that by fetishising and over-stating the power of this collective so-called intelligence we undervalue individual humans ..." Anonymous are doing some interesting things to highlight Internet censorship in Australia ~ http://www.google.com/search?q=australia+cyber+attacks+anonymous http://www.google.com/search?q=australia+cyber+attacks+anony... Individuals would have a lot of difficulty in undertaking these - legally questionable and technically difficult tasks ~ http://www.google.com/search?q=australia+cyber+attacks+anonymous http://www.google.com/search?q=australia+cyber+attacks+anony... The down side of this of course is moderation and control. The instability of the mob. The possibility to do good one day, evil the next.