So Max, the would-be blogger on his gap-year jolly through India and south east Asia, has been driven off the Guardian’s Comment Is Free site after just one single post following a sustained onslaught by posters, incensed that some degree of nepotism might have seen this middle class teenager about to embark on a typically middle class pursuit getting such a high profile platform to document his trip. Now, I read his debut entry last Thursday and didn’t really think a whole lot of it – in fact it was pretty dreadful – but even so, I reckon the vicious response it got was wildly excessive and the decision to shut it down in the face of all the ‘cyber-bullying’ made for a mildly depressing Sunday afternoon read.