Transcendentalists and teh interwebz!

For my essay i think i'm going to be looking at the internet, and what the transcendentalists would think of it. Personally i think that while certain parts of it would appeal to them, over all they would hate it. Mostly I think this for a few reasons, the greatest of which is that the internet removes you from nature. Additionally I think that they wouldn't like that everything on the internet is a secondhand source, that pages like Wikipedia prompt conformity. On the other hand I think they would like all the porn. Procreant urges are really easy to satisfy with the internet's help. I think that explaining all that will be the first half of my essay and then in the second half I'm going to defend the internet and say that the Transcendentalists are wrong. I will talk about how things like Google Earth enable people get a view of places that they can't otherwise see, and about how Google Earth can put someone in any part of the world with just a few keystrokes. Also how people can retire to solitude easily on the internet. And while this is a strange and at first glance wrong statement, it is true. I think that when Emerson said that you must retire from society and your chamber, he meant more than just retiring from the opinions and ideas of everyone else but also from yourself. As he said "A foolish constancy is the hobgoblin of little minds". Thus i believe that he wanted people to retire from themselves as well as other's minds. And where better to simultaneously retire from yourself than the completely anonymous internet? On the internet people can express their thoughts freely without worry that "for nonconformity the world will whip you with it's displeasure". Thats the basic idea. I have a few more points that i don't really want to get into, but if anyone has any ideas for other ways in which either the Transcendentalists could attack the internet, or i could defend it, I would appreciate it if you were to share.