The endpoint of this line of development is exemplified in Bruce Sterling's novel Distraction. A politician, annoyed by criticism, commissions a spider which cr

The endpoint of this line of development is exemplified in Bruce Sterling's novel Distraction. A politician, annoyed by criticism, commissions a spider which crawls the net, and when it finds a sufficiently annoying and influtential critic of the pol, posts their name and details to a hitlist on teh website of a nutjob organization. Their name gets removed after they've been asassinated.