> The WWW was pretty great [...] We now do signal amplification of the worst of humanity Aren't non-Web ("anti-Web"?) platforms the greatest driver of this? Y

> The WWW was pretty great [...] We now do signal amplification of the worst of humanity Aren't non-Web ("anti-Web"?) platforms the greatest driver of this? You mention IRC and bittorrent. Nothing really Web about those, either. Are you thinking of WWW and The Internet as being interchangeable terms? Isn't this just a generic and vague luddite-doomer rant?