The trouble is that as quantifiable as the Internet is, its obscurity is maintained by the ineluctable fact of its hopelessly unmanageable vastness. It encompasses the world in a way TV never could. — 3d abstract vector created by pikisuperstar - www.freepik.com
A couple of hours after the horrific Fourth of July parade shooting in prosperous Highland Park, Ill., I watched a video online of a song called On My Mind. It was from a 21-year-old called Awake the Rapper. His real name is the reason I was watching: Robert E. Crimo III, the man taken into custody by police as the Highland Park shooter.
It's hard, if not impossible, to find the video now. The most logical websites — YouTube, for instance — want no part of it.
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