The second paragraph quotes them as being "slum-like spaces" so I'm not sure where you derive cause for reducing the author's viewpoint to naive idealism like t

The second paragraph quotes them as being "slum-like spaces" so I'm not sure where you derive cause for reducing the author's viewpoint to naive idealism like that. If anything this seems like a pretty conventional viewpoint these days, that the web has shifted from broadcasting to smaller peer-to-peer interactions. It doesn't seem particularly controversial.