title: Confronting the Internet's Dark Side
author:  Raphael Cohen-Almagor 
description: "The dramatic growth of internet technologies are creating a new era in democratic life, a crisis for the established media, and possibilities for participatory politics that challenge liberal institutions. This book documents today's turning point with urgency and profound clarity. Ithiel de Sola Poole's Technologies of Freedom (1983) has become a classic work defining the information society, with media technology its axis. Confronting the Internet's Dark Side is of that quality, a potential classic that defines for us moral responsibility in the new media age." <br />Clifford Christians, Research Professor of Communications, University of Illinois<br /><br />"Cohen-Almagor recognizes that if social responsibility on the Internet is to be implemented, discussions will need to focus on how and why one can draw limits to what one does on the internet as well as what ISP's and countries can do with the internet. Not everyone will agree with the solutions proposed, but in light of the detailed stories concerning hate sites (towards groups or humanity in general), webcam viewing of actual suicides, the exponential growth of child pornography etc., it is hard to fall back on knee jerk First Amendment responses." <br />Robert Cavalier, Carnegie Mellon University<br /><br />"In this book, Raphael Cohen-Almagor makes a forceful case for greater social responsibility on the part of Internet service providers and all who surf the Web. Calling on us to think and act like citizens of the online world, he insists that we have a moral obligation to confront those who abuse the technology by using it to disseminate hate propaganda and child pornography, or by engaging in cyber-bullying, or by aiding and abetting terrorism. Fast paced, philosophically sophisticated, and filled with illustrative and sometimes heart-wrenching examples, the book is intended to serve as a wake-up call and will challenge its readers to reconsider their views of free expression in the Internet age." <br />Stephen L. Newman, York University<br /><br />"[A] groundbreaking book ... a must-read for researchers and policy planners as well as laymen interested in social responsibility on the Internet." <br />Jadgish N. Singh, Jerusalem Post
zlib_text: Contents
  About	the	Book
  About	the	Author
  Title	Page
  Dedication
  Author’s	Note
  Introduction:	Liberty	or	Death
  Chapter	1:	Unmasking	the	Trolls
  Chapter	2:	The	Lone	Wolf
  Chapter	3:	Into	Galt’s	Gulch
  Chapter	4:	Three	Clicks
  Chapter	5:	On	the	Road
  Chapter	6:	Lights,	Web-camera,	Action
  Chapter	7:	The	Werther	Effect
  Conclusion:	Zoltan	vs	Zerzan
  Endnotes
  Further	Reading
  Acknowledgements
  Copyright
  
  About	the	Book
  Beyond	the	familiar	online	world	that	most	of	us	inhabit	–	a	world	of	Google,
  Hotmail,	Facebook	and	Amazon	–	lies	a	vast	and	often	hidden	network	of	sites,
  communities	 and	 cultures	 where	 freedom	 is	 pushed	 to	 its	 limits,	 and	 where
  people	can	be	anyone,	or	do	anything,	they	want.	A	world	that	is	as	creative	and
  complex	as	it	is	dangerous	and	disturbing.	A	world	that	is	much	closer	than	you
  think.
  The	dark	net	is	an	underworld	that	stretches	from	popular	social	media	sites	to
  the	 most	 secretive	 corners	 of	 the	 encrypted	 web.	 It	 is	 a	 world	 that	 frequently
  appears	 in	 