*At the end* of his review of my first book, /Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace/, David Pogue, a brilliant writer and author of countless technical and computer- related texts, wrote this:
Unlike actual law, Internet software has no capacity to punish. It doesn't affect people who aren't online (and only a tiny minority of the world population is). And if you don't like the Internet's system, you can always flip off the modem.~[1]
[1]: David Pogue, "Don't Just Chat, Do Something," /New York Times,/ 30 January 2000.