Internet Threatens States How social media changed revolutions
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Internet Threatens States
How social media changed revolutions
Summary
• A couple of examples• Iran• Arab Spring
• People Powered• By the people, For the people• Inspire• Internet as a tool• Information is a weapon
• Decentralized by design• Democratic by extension
• A couple of examples• Iran• Arab Spring
• People Powered• By the people, For the people• Inspire• Internet as a tool• Information is a weapon
• Decentralized by design• Democratic by extension
2009 Presidential
Election ProtestIran
A violent repression
• A couple of examples• Iran• Arab Spring
• People Powered• By the people, For the people• Inspire• Internet as a tool• Information is a weapon
• Decentralized by design• Democratic by extension
The Arab Spring
From simple protests to Civil War
• A couple of examples• Iran• Arab Spring
• People Powered• By the people, For the people• Inspire• Internet as a tool• Information is a weapon
• Decentralized by design• Democratic by extension
Information by the people, for the people
• Real Time information• Uncensored• Interactive
• A couple of examples• Iran• Arab Spring
• People Powered• By the people, For the people• Inspire• Internet as a tool• Information is a weapon
• Decentralized by design• Democratic by extension
Inspires the individuals
• Information Inspires Resistance Support Democracy• At home and abroad
• A couple of examples• Iran• Arab Spring
• People Powered• By the people, For the people• Inspire• Internet as a tool• Information is a weapon
• Decentralized by design• Democratic by extension
It’s just a tool
• “Humans co-evolve with their tools”- Jeff BEZOS• “[The internet] did not cause the uprising. […] When people
[…] wanted to do something, they could lay their hands on these tools, in a way they never could before” – Clay SHIRKY
• A couple of examples• Iran• Arab Spring
• People Powered• By the people, For the people• Inspire• Internet as a tool• Information is a weapon
• Decentralized by design• Democratic by extension
Information is a weapon
• Free flow of information gives power to the people
• A couple of examples• Iran• Arab Spring
• People Powered• By the people, For the people• Inspire• Internet as a tool• Information is a weapon
• Decentralized by design• Democratic by extension
Decentralized by DesignDemocratic by extension
• ARPA net• Decentralized for reliability and resilience• Impossible to shutdown support democracy
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