Next, says Sliwa, the Angels will patrol the vast Internet. Which brings us to the biggest exploiter here, the media. I'm reasonably confident that the relentless coverage of Net sex results not from conspiracy, but from the aforementioned eagerness to push that three-letter hot button. Still, it is interesting to note that many of the TV news magazines and publications that wax most shrill on the allegedly filthy world of cyberspace are owned by media conglomerates. These institutions are seriously threatened by the Internet phenomenon, which if unchecked has the potential to reorder the communications world they now dominate.
Media frenzies run in cycles, though, and maybe the Net sex panic has peaked.
Or so I hoped at Millennium Days. But that was simply a wishful hallucination. Only hours after the event, I tuned in to a report on CNN concerning computer-generated celebrity nudes. I'm sure it is. But other Internet issues are immeasurably more important.