How to go about enforcing a clampdown on an infinitely springy web. How there are only one or two ways to be correct and millions of ways to be Dada revolutionary. Hackers will tell you that the net will perceive censorship as damage and route around it. But what about something more sinister, like the seizure of the infrastructure by Armageddon Online. An alternative Internet with guts is a possibility.
Connectivity is easy to hack and hard as hell to stop.
Since I find all this radical optimism hard to believe in, I spend the book getting fucked up. I talked to some Branch Davidian survivors of the Waco Texas fire. They described what there life was really like, as opposed to the media images that demonized them. If the Branch Davidians were able to break through their OWN fanatical reality tunnel and from there project a sense of humor and self-awareness, they could have created some doubt about the image that was being projected. I doubt it.