One must wonder at times, whether the news reflects society, or society reflects the news..
There has been a noted increase of vilification and racial attacks in the chats these days, directed ether from the west at the east, or vice versa.. the baiting between the armchair factions much more vitriolic.. and while it offers a new level of entertainment value to the medium, it also leads one to ponder whether some of these who're playing the Game, are not in fact, serious.. presenting the views that not only stereotype racism and hatred but which are, in fact, their own.
This medium has opened an entirely new venue for the exchange of points of view, and for some has become a reality in which their former 'disabilities'.. their appearance, social status, manner of speech.. are erased.. A venue in which their thoughts will be heard without predisposition; where Homer doesn't need hair to be an executive... so to speak..
These are those who should be a concern, for it's allowed the previously inarticulate to absorb, and disseminate opinion, as fact. Those who can string words together in an appealing and seemingly intellectual manner, are seen as 'authorities', and at this stage in the assimilation of the computer into our daily lives, it's much like owning a CB back in the 70's, and accepting the word of 'BigBear' as gospel.