The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.

Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.

Tragedy of the Commons: while each person can agree that all would benefit from common restraint, the incentives of the individuals are arrayed against that outcome.

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

[F]rom now on, the act of creating and circulating evidence of wrongdoing to more than a few people, even if they all work together, will be seen as a delayed but public act.

[B]ecause the minimum costs of being an organization in the first place are relatively high, certain activities may have some value but not enough to make them worth pursuing in any organized way. New social tools are altering this equation by lowering the costs of coordinating group action.