Jamie Bartlett: The Dark Net; Inside the Digital Underworld

A grimly fascinating book about a necessary part of the Information Age. The author is commendably non-judgmental about the frankly damaged people he meets but is sharp enough to see some benefits, to a degree, in many apparently perverse sites e.g pro anorexia,bulimia, suicide...and most intriguingly,trolls. Their ' history' is revelatory.

It's a surface look but none the less intriguing and valuable for that and is very easily and accessibly written.

It also with a number of characters gave a good and better sense of where bitter queen Peter Thiel ( destroyer of Gawker) came from...but makes him no better as a human being. He remains, at least in the public eye, as a complete self-centered and self-absorbed shit. But many if not most of to individuals are remarkably self-centers to a disconcerting degree.