>Before this decade, the Internet was by and large an aristocracy of liberal, competent tech workers discussing their career and their interests

This is a complete fantasy. The internet has always been a fermenting pot of stupidity and intellectual garbage.

>We tend to worship democratising institutions without considering whether or not the people recieving these new powers are capable of handling them with the correct values

I honestly can’t tell if this is a satire? What the hell are ‘the correct values’?