But such political strategies in a network society are equivalent to shutting down the entire transit system. Some regimes, like China, are willing at the present time to make that sacrifice. They will not be able to bear that burden long. Information may be easy to produce, but it is extremely hard to control. Although it will not happen overnight, race, sex, and gender will cease to be constitutive categories for defining citizen rights within a network society.
Diversity has a salutary effect on all biological ecosystems, and human culture is no exception.
Whenever significant segments of a body politic are denied equal access to nets of their choice, it weakens the entire net. Hence, citizens who are blinded by their discriminatory ignorance will themselves find little toleration for their beliefs. Intelligence does not sweat out of one's skin, but proceeds from the imagination. Historically, in times of great economic upheaval, doomsdayers come out of the woodwork. The present moment offers no exception.