I’m not one to support Calicanis too much, but:

Digital communications is a wonderful thing–at least at the start. Everyone participating in digital communities is eventually introduced to Godwin’s Law: At some point, a participant, or more typically his or her thinking, will be compared to the Nazis. But that’s only part of the breakdown. Eventually, you see the effect of what I’ll call Harris’ Law: At some point, all humanity in an online community is lost, and the goal becomes to inflict as much psychological suffering as possible on another person.

It’s this propensity that keeps me on the skeptical side of the long-term value of “social media.” My hope is that the web develops to the point that responsibility for one’s actions online becomes the norm, rather than the exception.