Virtual Revolution Notes

• Chinese state have to hide the web from its citizens
• 3,000 people in china police the web
• the great firewall of china
• they percieve the threat is from within
• May 2008, 70,000 people killed
• kuku - pictures / videos ''citizen journalism''
• 50 centres = 300,00 operating to shut down anything they don't like on the net
• 25 million online users in China
• NY Times / BBC they have blocked
• Paypal made by Peter Thiel said to be the 'New World Currency'
• 6 billion dollars every year (2008)
• web = new social groups
• Al Quaida use UCG TO SPREAD FEAR ( PROPAGANDA VIDEOS / SHOCK TACTICS)
• The web allows people to live in their own worlds
• Cyberbolcanisation 
• Astonia ( Russia) most wired contry 97% online bank :O
• Cyber attack -> Denial Service -> Bocknet -. under control of cyber warriors
• Received a big Cyber attack of one of their biggest banks
• Portable home land ( connected by web)
• the web collapsed distances.