The victims in this modern version of an old drama are also the most vulnerable of their society, bearing as they do the stigmata of difference, a diagnostic label of the psychiatrist’s bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, (DSM IV). In the odd instance when that wasn’t strictly the case, they were certainly more vulnerable than the perpetrators. The victims of yore were generally the most vulnerable of their social grouping, the elderly, the solitary and the strange. The cyber village of common interests made possible by the internet, is in many ways quite similar to the mediaeval village of the original witch hunts and neither the motives for nor the methods of witch hunting have changed substantially. But, inevitably, benign tools can be bent to other ends and the same platform that supports groups intent on reaching out to each other in positive explorations of commonality and difference, also supports groups whose purposes are less positive and in some cases, wholly negative. Here, what they had to say could emerge, whole and undistorted, exactly as the author intended, an unheralded and intoxicating experience. At long last, here was a method of communication ideally suited to a disparate population with a preference for the written word as the means. Martijn Dekker famously commented that the internet was for the autistic community, what sign language was for the deaf.