Friday, 5 August 2011

TED Talk: "Let's Take Back the Internet"

This is a thought provoking talk from TED given by Rebecca MacKinnon. Who is she? Here's some info from her TED.com Profile page: "A former head of CNN’s Beijing and Tokyo bureaus, MacKinnon is an expert on Chinese Internet censorship. She’s one of the founders (with Ethan Zuckerman) of the Global Voices Online blog network, which aggregates and translates news around the world that might otherwise go unheard."

The talk is a world trip around censorship and "citizens rights to communication". The world map of social networks shown is interesting when compared with a conventional world map. The talk makes you think about how the internet will evolve and what the next step may be.

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