I am not offering this is a critique of the internet, its just that there are a lot of factors involved. It does offer plenty of possibilities. It also has, it can have, a cheapening effect and I think both exist and I think its true of everything. You could say that about the printing press.
Noam ChomskyThe general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
Noam Chomsky