The Constitution of Power
The democratizing effects of the internet that, for some, has become a megaphone for individual calls to action, have fundamentally begun a shift of the basis of world power away from institutional control. The internet has transformed the helmet of state control (in more repressive regimes, with information having been controlled to a lesser extent by share-holders in the freer societies) of information into a sieve that has ultimately proven to be uncontainable by any singular or plural force. In a more concrete sense, I refer to Turkey's attempt to censor the internet for access to pornographic, terrorist, or sites that support the theory of Darwinian evolution. I refer to China's severe and uncompromising censorship of the world wide web, which prompted Google's retreat to Hong Kong. I refer to the Arab Spring, the reverberations of which continue to be felt by tyrannical powers to this day. To each of these attempts to block access to information, news of the cens...