Facts
- Over 2 million tweets only in Iran in the time period of 2 days
- 200,000 tweets send an hour
- 2 Million people on-line
- 1.2 Million documents ( secure sources)
- 350 Million worldwide users on facebook
- 253 million on-line just in china
- 30 thousand policing the web in china
Packet information: this takes a piece of information and breaks it up into little pieces and then put back together for the person receiving this info. - used as a tool for computers to talk to each other.
Ican - no one has the power to switch the internet off.
Dates: 1957 - Launched first space satellite
1990's - freely move money around the world (PayPal)
2007 - Russian face the riots
May 2008 - Earthquake in china. 70,000 people killed.
2009 - Iran face the riots
Quotes from presenters
- ' Capture information from a crown of eye witnesses and transmit gobally in real time' Aleks
- 'The net interpenetrates censorship as damage and wraps around it' - John Gillmore
- '50 cent army exagerrated' - Hu Young
- 'Internet is an open communication- Bill Gates
Appernet : is the foundation of the internet, packet switching.
Aleks Krotosk
- "The web seems to have set information free and we've seen that as people fight for freedom and democracy"
- "...the web is shifting power"
- "accelerating globalisation"
- "...but its also reinventing warfare"
- "unmediated, interactive and its mobile"
- "the web is like a tool box for protesters"
- "weapon of revolution"
- "works against central control"
- "the internet cannot be turned on or off"
- "Does anyone have the power to turn it on or off?"
- "in the right or wrong hands its makes a significant difference with battles against authority"
- "anonymous users can now perform the role of investigative journalists"
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