AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND

Back then, this was published, in print, in a computer magazine where I first read it. Klein likens the - then emerging - internet to a labyrinth. I wonder how much of this assessment still holds true nowadays.
Some quotes:

• 1998 is still a dangerously nascent stage in the Internet, while a trillion dollar nest of dragons sets up shop.
• Simulating revolt is more fun, and a better investment. This is true in casinos, malls, games, the Web. But consider what sim-revolt implies as a broader model for public life? We pretend that the labyrinth of the Web makes us free of the global corporate program that builds and owns it.
• Recently, there is talk of voting on the Web. Is a cross between ergonomic fascism and the shopping mall the best frame of mind for making political decisions?
• Just because we can subvert the Web by saying nasty things or engaging in cyber-sex in the margins, or downloading information cheaply, does not mean that we are subverting any core reality.