WEB 2.0

6 significant facts on web 2.0:

• Well over 1,000,000 books are published worldwide every year.
•  Online readers of newspapers are up to 30 million in the last 5 years.
• More video was uploaded to YOUTUBE in the last 2 months that if ABC, NBC and CBS had been airing new content 24/7/365 since 1948.
• 95% of all songs downloaded last year weren’t paid for.
• Wikipedia launched in 2001; it now features over 13 million articles in more than 200 languages.
• Nokia manufactures 13 cell phones every second.

1.) The issues that surround being able to access ideas, words and images from around the world could be very influencing to many people. That could range from radical ideas and beliefs or images that could change an individual’s life in the society. However this also gives people without power in society but freedom in the world through social networking sites.

2.) I think that the group of people that should be responsible for internet regulation are the secret agencies that’s because the main communication for anyone is the internet. By the regulation that could prevent serious situations taking place.

3.)  There should be governments regulating the internet to prevent serious crimes such as pornography, identify thief and cyber bullying. Also radical ideas threatening communities could be prevented before events taking place which could save millions.

4.) I think that it may take a new organisation because they would be devoted on the regulation of the internet; this will make the regulation more efficient.

5.) The regulation could be monitored by high-tech machines that the government could buy, the progress could be checked every month see the results of the regulation. The monitoring program should be checking the websites in the world with specific words to shorten the time.

6.) The regulation of the internet would be breaching the privacy aspect of the internet; freedom will be broken but in return the protection of society is worth paying for.