Mr. Mullen's strikeback concept is interesting.
Yet in the examples given at the end, the entity that takes "strikeback" measures are "official authorities", not individuals :
- a state taking a child out of school
- authorities putting a dog down
- a court sending someone to prison
That makes quite a difference with the "individual" strikeback. I agree that a document the French National Assembly drafted 200 years ago may not be too relevant in the case of today's information technology - but then, the methods of Chicago gangsters making their own laws during the 1920s aren't too appropriated either.
I am not against the strikeback concept, I think that the author has a point here. But done the wrong way, "strikebacks" could make things worse than they are already. Maybe Mr. Mullen suggests that an official Internet Police should be set up. But then, how ?

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