It is reductive and paralizing. Also when one takes a closer look at what the real 'other' is on the net, it is not so much found in social and political structures as we know them off the net, but the way the net transforms all issues. The net itself is the 'other' everyone here is trying to deal with. This is purely the matter of resisting an appearant homogenisation through so-called Disneyfication and the influences of commerce and repressive politics. The problem is this has to be dealt with in a specific kind of discourse, and this involves most of all avoiding traps.
Situations have to be continuously rejudged, as well as tactics.
It is not easy, and it can never be clean in the sense that one has to realise how, for instance, noise, incomprehensible humour and the different layers of communication that are inevitable on the net will always trouble the waters of aestethics and ethics. And they have to.