Andrew Keen, a blogger himself, comes under heavy fire from blog veterans like Robert Scoble, Jeff Jarvis, Dan Gillmor and Dave Winer for his remarks on Internet as “a jungle peopled by intellectual yahoos and digital thieves”
The web allows anyone to post their most intimate thoughts, views or even outright lies, without any editing, under the assumption that the crowd will correct any mistakes.
Keen calls for efforts to balance out the web’s powers of instant publishing against society’s need for accountability.
The villains in Keen’s narrative are a “pyjama army” of mostly anonymous writers who spread gossip and scandal, “intellectual kleptomaniacs,” who search Google to copy others’ work and the “digital thieves” of media content in the post-Napster era.
“Pyjama army” destroying internet?
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