The web makes lots of things easier... I bought a kilogram of Darjeeling first flush tea this morning – just a few clicks of my mouse, and the tea is on order and will be delivered on Thursday. “Disintermediation” – a fancy term for getting rid of the middleman – has revolutionized a broad range of industries.
Usually we think of these things as unalloyed “goods”, but there's a dark side as well. Like virtually any other tool or technology mankind has ever created, the web can be used either for good or evil. A new entry on the evil web front: a site dedicated to arranging crowd-funding of assassinations.
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