Oh, yeah? You suck, too...

“I notice roadkill too. I wouldn’t call getting run over by a truck a ‘gopher marketing strategy’”.

-- blogger GuyZero commenting on Maclean's writer Steve Maich's article saying the internet sucks; the contention that it was merely a clever, and cynical, ploy to court controversy.

(If you want to see how the article managed to stir things up in the blogosphere, you could start with Globe columnist Matthew Ingram's blog.)

From the responses, you'd think Maich was stomping puppies.

And as but one example, here is Kitchener-based techie blogger Don Spencer (who gives further links to further scorn from other sources):

If you're looking for balanced journalism in Canada's major news magazine, Maclean's, you won't find it in this piece of tripe. Sure, there are many reasons why the Internet currently can be a dangerous place. But to reduce all the benefits of world-wide connectivity to "The Internet sucks" is to be guilty of the same hyperbole that Maich so detests about those who promote the potential of the World Wide Web.