Summary Of Sex Lies And The Internet

This text by Andrew Keen is as the title alludes to “Sex, lies and the Internet”. It is obvious that Andrew Keen, who wrote this in his book from 2007, is critical of the media the Internet, which, in this text’s example, abuses the opportunity people have to meet each other virtually. It is obvious why he is pointing out two really serious stories posted on two different Web sites, because they make his argumentation for clamming that the Internet Is only up to bad things even stronger. Basically it is about people making fun of virtual places to meat. In this case a marketplace for one-night stands, and think it is a risk-free platform due to it is “an editorless medium where the only rules are that there are no rules”. He is here refereeing to the story with the Seattle
The story she made up and make a bunch of women read, 1.000 times it had been read, is an example of a really heartless and stupid girl, having fun on the behalf of an innocent mans’ life. The most tragically about this is that she clamed she would take her own life since she had gotten so depressed after the rape. As Andrew Keen points out, many of the readers were responding in a normal way, “this son of a bitch deserves to be in jail” an so on, but the worse is, that none of the things were true and that all the responses made on the post were written on something non existing rape done by a man named Guido. The essence of this text is, that no proof are required so you can write whatever you like, without no one to judge, as Julie says herself when she “told The Miami New Times ‘There is nothing to stop (someone) from slandering a guy impunity… I would guess the vast majority of the ‘stories’ posted are completely full of shit.’” This quotation completes Andrew Keen’s argument for claiming that the Internet is almost entirely filled with lies and vicious