And that's why it doesn't apply here. The point of that metaphor is predictive - "do something about these bad apples, lest they spoil the bunch". But the Web is already spoiled, covered with three layers of fungus and home to countless maggots. The time to spot and remove the "bad apples" was in the 1990s. At this point, the Web needs to be thoroughly disinfected, or torched and done anew.