Artifact #6

This video is very interesting because it talks a lot about how things that are done on the internet can start a revolution with certain things.  At the beginning I could not quite figure out what he was talking about because it was very vague on what the video was going to be about.  But then I realized that his website is a big hit with many people because you can post anything that you want on it and it can be completely anonymous and it will be deleted within a certain amount of days.  This is good because on most websites once a person posts something it is on there forever and if they write something that they regret, they may not have a chance to get rid of it.  This is also helpful because if many people talk about one thing and complain about how it is hurting a certain group of people on this TED website then they can help get whatever they want changed.  A very interesting example of this is when they protested against the church of scientology.  It is a very odd church and just a few posts on the internet easily made a large protest against the church.  The church is completely bogus because only rich movie stars can afford to join it and from what I saw they believe in some really out there stuff like aliens.  Scientology is so odd that they even made a full episode of South Park dedicated to ripping it.  Another thing that was very interesting is about how the cat abuser got his due and was caught.  Many people saw a video on youtube about a cat being abused and within days there was thousands of post going against the man that made the video.  This sparked the police to go after who made the video and abused the cat.  They found the man within days and he was arrested.  This was very interesting because it is hard to believe that just a bunch of blog posts could get a man caught for animal cruelty.  The internet is a very powerful tool, that when used correctly can spark many people into a movement against whatever is a bad thing going at that particular time.  People should continue to use the internet more often to get major protests across against important issues.  Back in the 60s and 70s the only way to protest something that people were against was to march in washington d.c. and just hope that you had enough people in the protest to make people on capitol hill notice that the event you were protesting is very important and it needs to be stopped.  Now the internet is so revolutionary that millions of people can sit in the comfort of their own home in front of their keyboard and all type whatever needs to be protested against and usually they will be noticed by somebody and the issue can be brought to the national media's attention.  It is very important that we continue to use the internet as a tool of change and use it less as a tool for just playing around.