Interesting take on the internet as Feudalism, and everyone having to align with a king or a prince to protect him from other unknowable threats.

There is a blog which discusses how much of the internet is more like a digital bazaar - everyone shouting and no one listening to most of it (camels, get your camels here, dates, I have dates, and so on).

I trust I can include the link here, and as I am very new to Hacker News, I trust I am not overstepping some boundary by doing so. http://www.bfstransdata.com/digital-bazaar/

Maybe the internet is a little of all things - bazaar, wild west, feudalism, democracy, socialism, and so on.