The problem with the “hubs and spokes” model, with its potential for infinite spreading and all-inclusive participatory democracy, is that there’s no real hierarchy and nobody in charge. That’s great for including everybody’s perspective and getting everybody involved, but it makes decision-making pretty much impossible.
“There is no question that the communication culture that reigns on the Net is better at speed and volume than at synthesis. It is capable of getting tens of thousands of people to meet on the same street corner, placards in hand, but is far less adept at helping those same people to agree on what they are really asking for before they get to the barricades—or after they leave.” (Klein 2001)
Some people also argue that use of the internet, a patently global(izing) technology, is inherently opposed to anti-globalization sentiment. Not only does the non-localized nature of the internet allow people to connect worldwide, but on an even more basic level, where do you think the parts for your laptop or your wireless router were manufactured? However, activists vehemently emphasize that what they oppose is the abusive power relationship of economically powerful states and corporations over weaker entities, the global dominance of the few that they say is being forced upon weak nations with no other alternatives but to accept the conditions imposed upon them.
