The low rating has nothing to do with the content or writing style; rather, it’s to do with this book’s unfortunate antiquity. At best, this is a case study of very primordial Internet issues, and from a historian’s perspective, it is a great resource to trace the genealogy of modern-day Internet issues back to two potential grandfathers (though the line is unlikely to be direct.) However, it seems to be more of a guidebook and analysis on what must be done going forward with the Internet as a new forum. All of this advice ranges from the presently fairly obvious to the grim realization of “It’s too late, we should have listened to these ideas back then.” Even the stuff that hasn’t changed from back in the day doesn’t really have a solution that could be applied; it’s almost a commentary on human nature in those parts. Any information that can be gleaned from this is simply, by and large, outdated—making any value this book has into historical text, rather than informative advice.