The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu

Author:Tim Wu
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2016-10-17T16:00:00+00:00

Eventually, one thing led to another. “Of course, I had no idea what I was saying; much of what I said was based on what I had seen on General Hospital and read in Jackie Collins paperbacks. And to be honest, I don’t think he knew what he was saying either. He wasn’t particularly imaginative, or even literate.” But in defense of the chat room, she writes that “early cybersex allowed young women to explore their early sexual identities and desires without the fear of guilt, judgment, or censure that would usually accompany such efforts at school or elsewhere.”

The chat rooms would persist even after the opening of the World Wide Web. Unsurprisingly, having so many sex-charged ones gave the service something of a seedy reputation. In a 1995 headline, the Philadelphia Inquirer called the service “A Tawdry Back Alley, Just Off the Information Superhighway.” Perhaps just as unsurprising, that reputation hardly slowed AOL’s growth and probably enhanced it, especially when the content of some chats was revealed in congressional committee, managing to scandalize members. Senator Herb Kohl, Democrat of Wisconsin, declared in a Senate subcommittee that “most Americans don’t know what it is out there on the Internet. If they did, they would be shocked.”12

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