When Democracy Falls From The Sky Thanks To Google And Facebook

The Internet is the ideal channel through which to publish and circulate photos and videos of atrocities, and it is a place where citizens can organize to better resist and overthrow their oppressors -- that is, provided they can gain access to the Internet. Enter Facebook and Google, which are working independently on two similar projects to enable free, uncensored Internet access from the sky.

ConnectivityLabDrone650The Internet is the ideal channel through which to publish and circulate photos and videos of atrocities, and it is a place where citizens can organize to better resist and overthrow their oppressors — that is, provided they can gain access to the Internet. Enter Facebook and Google, which are working independently on two similar projects to enable free, uncensored Internet access from the sky.

If the role played by Facebook in the Arabic revolutions was widely exaggerated, as Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself acknowledges, nobody disputes the important part the Internet nonetheless played.

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