Virtual Revolution 2 (notes)

·         ¼ of the world connected

·         Twitter-2006-San Francisco

·         “We change our tools, and then our tools change us.” - Jeff Bezos (CEO of Amazon.com)

·         “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”- John Gilmore

·         Iran-Banned Media-Twitter spread the news

·         “More profound impact than the printing press.”- Al Gore

·         Someone once said… "You can't take something off the Internet - it's like taking pee out of a pool."

·         “The Internet is just the world passing around notes in a classroom.”  – Jon Stewart

·         Wiki Leaks-Julian Assange

·         ‘The Great Firewall of China’

·         Iranian crisis- Blocked FB & Twitter- ‘Hackstack’ (software)-Austin Heap

·         “Double edged sword.”-Lee Siegel

·         China- 253 million online

·         ’30,000 police the web (secretly)- BBC & New York Times BLOCKED!

·         ‘50 cent army online’- 300,000…post articles in favour of the government

·         Cencorship – (“One is guiding”)(“One is blocking”)- Yeng

·         “Threaten the culture.”- Hu Yung

·         PayPal(1998)- Peter Thiel- “New World Currency”

·         ‘Darker uses of the internet’

·         Al Qaeda & Taliban- Shock Tactics-Propaganda

·         “Portable Homeland”

·         Estonia- 97% Bank transactions online

·         May 2007(Estonia)- ‘Denial of service’(bombardment of traffic causes lack of access)

·         FB=350million..3^rd largest population country

·         “Cyber-balkanization”

·         “Web collapses distances”