Apparently, you can search on any given topic and get umpteen hits. You then take a little from this and a little from that, and voila, a paper emerges. What fascinates me is rapidity by which this new medium has been subverted to less than noble purposes. After all, the Internet was put together by a few scientists who wanted to share data. Today, all sorts of vice flourishes on the Internet.
Pornography is huge.
Gambling is also chewing up large segments of bandwidth. Companies busily market software to filter out objectionable sites while politicians struggle to write laws governing Internet content. Such efforts are ultimately futile, because it is difficult to apply U.S. laws to sites that originate in other countries. I suspect that the real concern is how Uncle will get his piece of the action. It would seem, then, that a substantial portion of the population engages in behavior that most of us would characterize as a form of vice.