Community media projects to Web 2.0 apps and beyond

As the information superhighway continues its ever expanding quest to connect every person on Earth, community-based sharing has become increasingly simplified, thus much more expressive. Like we saw at Willinet, the goal of the community-based network is to provide assistence for anyone seeking an outlet to spread information. With the emergence of YouTube and the like (Break, Vimeo, etc...) the messages individuals wish to share with the world become instantly accessible. New and exciting possibilities for the exchange of ideas have opened, and with them, too, comes opportunities to capitalize for profit unlike anything previously witnessed.
In increasing the size of collaborators in a given community, is there danger for proliferation of disinformation? I submit that yes, as the "Myspace Generation" delves further into the world of metacrap, we must be wary of those who would try to control the information we see. The most striking difference between a community based network, such as Willinet, and the online community is the idea of anonymity. With accountability essentially made irrelevant, little stands in the way for a certain party to act concededly in their own interests, be that concealing information, manipulation of sharing systems such as "Google bombing," or capitalistic ventures launched off the efforts of countless faceless internet producers such as is "Sheep farm."
The elimination of accountability results in two polar opposite effects: (1) The art expressed becomes unhindered by social constraints, or (2) the information presented loses all credibility. Unfortunately, the latter seems to be prevailing more and more, while simultaneously contributing to the demise of the community-based networking systems.