Virtual Revolution Part 2 Notes

• Paypal founder Peter Theil
• Paypal handling $60 billion in 2008
• "New world currency"
• web links extremists --> Al Qa'eda - use shock tactics (propaganda)(portable homeland)
• Estonia - 97% banking transactions done online
• April 2007 riots caused by governments proposal to move Russian statue to new location
• Cyber attack --> denial of service (bombardment of traffic causes lack of access)
• "web collapses distances" - Virtual Revolution
• "Cyber-Balkanisation"
• The Great Firewall of China
• China 253 million online
• 30,000 people police the web in china (BBC and New York Times blocked)
• 50 cent army online - 300, 000 post articles in favour of the government
• "One is guiding" "One is blocking" - Yeng
• "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 Twiiter and it was used to spread news
• "More profound impact than the printing press" - Al Gore
• "The internet is just the word passing around notes in a classroom." - Jon Stewart
• Haystack - Software invented by Austin Heap
•  "You can't take something off the Internet - it's like taking pee out of a pool." - Unknown