Via the Old Revolution, an article on how the internet is not promoting cross-cultural understanding:

If comments on Internet bulletin boards were bullets and computer hacking attacks military sorties then East Asia would be a war zone now. In the last few months, a bitter controversy over Japanese history textbooks, which China and South Korea say gloss over Japan’s actions in World War II, has had Internet users in the region revisiting hostilities of 60 years ago. As well as mauling each other online, the two sides have been directing determined cyber attacks against each other’s Internets.