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