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Democracy in cyberspace … or mob rule ?

Internet debate can be coarse
— says Boris Johnson —


cross hairs

but it really does hold journalists and politicians to account. 

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But enough of me.  Let’s talk about you.  Or rather, let’s talk about the small minority of you who not only read but respond to these columns — sitting up late in America, rising early in Hong Kong.  I mean the great caffeine-powered, keyboard-hammering community of online thinkers who contribute with such richness to the cyberspace jabberama. 

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