British FM William Hague points out cyberspace is changing the way we view and conduct foreign policy as well as transforming our everyday lives. The political upheaval in Egypt is a recent example. The Egyptian government tried to shut down the internet and mobile phone networks and broadcasters like Al Jazeera. The CEO of Vodafone called Hague today to discuss the attempt made yesterday by the Egyptian authorities to send messages to all their supporters via the Vodafone network.
Hague notes that Twitter and Google created a speak-to-tweet service so that Egyptian citizens could circumvent government controls. And NGOs like Amnesty International sent live updates about casualties via Twitter. There are also reports of authorities in third countries blocking internet searches for the words Egypt and Cairo.
The internet, with its incredible connective power, has created opportunity on a vast and growing scale; unlocking economic potential, revolutionising access to information and requiring democratic governments to be more transparent.
Hague points out internet has transformed traditional notions of hierarchy and authority. It blurs geographical boundaries, allowing people on opposite sides of the world to communicate at the speed of light and to organise themselves around a sense of anger or common identity. As a colleague of Hague, Lord Howell, has written, for better or worse we are destined to be all connected, rich and poor, developed and developing, benign and malign, small and mighty.
But Hague declares there is a darker side to cyberspace that arises from our dependence on it. We rely on computer networks for the water in our taps, the electricity in our kitchens, the `sat navs' in our cars, the running of trains, the storing of our medical records, the availability of food in our supermarkets and the flow of money into high street cash machines.
Emulating the disgusting paradigm of infamous Graecokleptocrats, who persecute and jail dissident bloggers, many governments terrorize dissident bloggers. Blogging in Greece, the most corrupt country of Fourth Reich(EU), is considered an extreme-risk avocation. Freakish kleptocrats accuse dissident bloggers of treason, confiscate their computers, and lock them is jail! Freak galore! These prisoners of conscience follow the long tradition of Socrates, who was killed by the Athenian democracy.
Many government services are now delivered via the internet, as is education in many classrooms. In the UK 70% of younger internet users bank online and two thirds of all adults shop on the internet. This is not a phenomenon confined to any one part of the world. In less than 15 years the number of web users has exploded from 16 million in 1995 to more than 1.7 billion today, more than half of whom are in developing countries. By 2015, it is said that there will be more interconnected devices on the planet than humans.
Along with its numerous benefits, cyberspace has created new means of repression, enabling undemocratic governments to violate the human rights of their citizens. Premier George Papandreou of Greece crossed the Rubicon on October 18, 2010, when a deranged Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs destroyed a distinguished professor and dissident blogger, in order to appease Premier Erdogan of Turkey! That's why the Global Tax Revolt declared October 18 as the International Day Against Cybercop Brutality. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globaltaxrevolt
Internet has opened up new channels for hostile governments to probe our defences and attempt to steal our confidential information or intellectual property. Global Tax Revolt points out the persecution of dissident bloggers is unquestionably a serious attack on freedom of speech, and contrary to Article 2 of Lisbon Treaty, Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights, and Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The disgusting government of Greece cannot bully the blogosphere without repercussions and blowbacks. The international civil society got a shock and awe from the brutality of the infamous Greek government on October 18, 2010.
In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In Greece, where truth on internet becomes treason, however, netizens are in big trouble. Freakish Graecokleptocrats, who stole billions of euros and never went to jail, have the nerve to jail innocent dissident bloggers! The entropy of an organization is proportional to the square of its size. The Greek government needs only four ministers, but it has forty. No wonder, Premier Papandreou of October-18 infamy cannot control his freakish ministers, who do not have any better thing to do than suing innocent dissident bloggers, confiscating their computers, and locking them in jail for treason! Stolen lives are the major infamy of the deranged Papandreou government, October-18 mafia, a pack of mad dogs! Freak galore!
Internet has promoted fears of future cyberwar. It has enabled terrorist networks to plan atrocities, flood internet chat rooms with their ideology and prey on the vulnerable from thousands of miles away. And it provides rich pickings for criminals. On-line criminals steal the identities of ordinary citizens. They empty bank-accounts, extort money from firms and defraud government departments, and cost the global economy as much as $1 trillion annually.
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