Cyberselfish by Paulina Borsook, Little, Brown, $14.99, ISBN
0316847712
THE Internet is home to all manner of people and politics. Surely, no single
way of thinking can dominate? Prepare to be unpleasantly surprised, says Paulina
Borsook in Cyberselfish, as she takes a long look at what’s going on in
cyberspace. The unquestioning assumption that government is bad, free market is
good sometimes seems to be an orthodoxy. For example, if you join in discussions
on the Internet, you may be confronted by gung-ho gun fans. Gun control, they
argue, is just government’s way of maintaining a monopoly on force. Some…
