- Stephen Fry = "Web is a tool box"
- June 2009 Iran Youtube UGC, oppositions protested with tweets.
- Al Gore = "more profound impact, than the printing press"
- The web allows you to participate & interact & challenge. It is mobile and unmediated.
- Ceo of Amazon Jeff Bezoz = " We change our tools and tools change us"
- No central controll, cant be shut down which means its a threat to goverments. E.G wikileaks
- Web information is free!
- Globalization
- 1/4 of the population connected to the internet
- China = 253 million web users which is increasing their economic growth
- 300 thousands centres operating in china
- PayPal Peter Thiel= money can be moved across national borders
- 60 thousands transactions every year it is safe to use
- Peter Theil= "new world currency"
- Facebook: 350 millions users could be the third largest country
- Paypal was invented late 1990's in San fransisco
Negative
- Al Quaeda/Taliban--> used internet as a way of spreading their message across
- use it as propaganda- images of dead/shock tactics/ videos
- cyber cafes: been traced for terrorists activities
- Internet replaces the borders between countries
- "use it to spread their word, they use it to controll"
- Cyber-balknization
- "web collapses the internet beetween us"
- 'portable homeland' web allows them to live in their own world
- 2007- Astonia known as the 'wired country'- 97 % of most banking transactions are conducted
- Cyber Attack- shut down banks, businesses and goverment sites. Deinal of service
- April 2007 a row broke out with the russians
- mass demonstrations were organised through Web
- cyber self defence
- actions by civil society
- web is a democracy
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