Virtual Revolution Part 2...

The world wide web has transformed our world, a quarter of the world is connected...

- Fight for freedom and democracy 

- Tweets posted every hour in Iran

- Harpernet

- Packet information: takes a piece of information and breaks it up into small pieces, then sent over to a network, often not in the right order or even over the same line. At the receivers end the packets are recombined in the right order and the data is made whole again.

- Ican (International Body) No one as the power to switch the internet off
- Battles against authority
- Investigative journalists, by publishing hard information
- Wiki leaks allows people to anonymously blow the whistle on governments and corporations
- Censorship is a big impact
- February 2008 came a court junction by a Swiss bank, after Wiki leaks published allegations about tax ablation
- The internet is not such a controlled environment any more
- Block censorship government and organisations
- Haystack network an encryption programme (hides in everyday web data) secure
- Iranian's's do not have access to social media sites however Haystack network is another social media site they can access
- The web gives citizens power to route around censorship and ease access
- Express in politics is only voting in elections
- However more able to express in politics over the internet
- China has more people online than any other nation in the world
- Web effect on politics is a huge threat to the Sates
- Lots of sites blocked in China
- China has blocked mostly western sites
- Citizen journalists taken sources and uploaded onto sites
- Internet commentators
- Politics raising on the internet
- PayPal system allows ordinary people to transfer small amounts of money internationally
- PayPal caught authority
- Like minded people usual post online terrorist content
- Cyber net/Cyber bolkisation
- Net gives us power however it can be used in a good or bad way
- Cyber attack in Astonia (Denial of service) caused many problems with money usually with banks
- Reinforcing prejudice
- Will the web help us or create danger?
- Power and war-fair

Statistics/Facts and Dates...

-  1990's freely move money around the world (PayPal)

- 1957 launched first space satellite (Russians)

- 1974 two computer scientists, Vincer and Bob connected how the internet works 

- 2006 Twitter was developed in Sans Francisco
- April 2007 Russia and Astonia faced riots

- February 2008 came a court junction by a Swiss bank

- May 2008 a massive earthquake in China killed 70 thousand people

- June 2009 Iran - Riot, protests turned to Twitter

- 2 million tweets by half a million people 

- 2 billion people online

- 1.2 million documents (Military encryption to secure sources)

- 253 million online in China

- 30 thousand policing the web in China

- 300 thousand 50 centers operating in China today 

- 350 million users worldwide on Facebook

Important People...

- Jeff Bezos CEO and founder of Amazon.com

- Aleks Krostoski presenter

- Vincer and Bob scientists 

- Mitch Kapor co-founder, electronic frontier foundation 

- Austin Heap a geak hacker 

- David Runclman Cambridge University

- Lee Siegel Author

- Hu Young Beijing University

- Wen Yunchao a Blogger 

- Peter Thiel Co-founder of PayPal

- Konstantin Goloskokov Commissar, Nashi

Quotes from Important people...

- "It's driving the perfection of information" Jeff Bezos

- "Capture information from a crown of eye witnesses and transmit globally in real time" Aleks Krostoski

- "The net interpenetrates censorship as damage and wraps around it" John Gillmore

- "The web is a fantastic resource in sharing information and gathering issues" David Runclman

- "Government want to use the power of the internet" Hu Young

- "50 cent army exaggerated" Wen Yunchao

- "Internet a open communication" Bill Gates