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Internet, a vital factor of the current international structure
an article by Olea, M., Blanco K., Caballero M.
Since the beginning of the Internet it has been a
source for people to express their thoughts and
feelings. It has become a platform in which people
feel safe to share information, videos, files and
pictures, to get to know people from around the
world, learn about different cultures, different
points of view and, gradually, making the world a
more connected and informed place. 
Acta Protest
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However, recent laws have been proposed such as
SOPA and ACTA that threaten to remove this freedom
from people. The way the governments have
promoted these laws have made people feel that
their right of freedom is being threatened. These
laws have been counterproductive, though. Instead
of being uninformed, people around the world have
united against them and have been even more
active, politically speaking, than before. In
several German cities some 25,000 protesters took
the streets, mostly in Munich. They were joined by
2,000 people in Vienna (Austria), 4,000 in Sofia
(Bulgaria), 1500 in Prague, 1,500 in Tallinn, and
1,000 in Tartu (Estonia), and 1,000 in Paris.
(Castillo, 2012)
We basically owe the survival of the freedom of
speech and the use of internet to the actions
taken by the civil society organizations combined
with massive mobilizations in social networks such
as the Wikipedia blackout and the multiple
trending topics in Twitter that inspired people to
get informed about SOPA or ACTA, the social groups
on Facebook, and the many internet sites, like
AOL, Google Inc. ,including Youtube, Reddit and
many more have protested against politicians in
favor of these laws.
Internet is an essential factor of the international
structure. A proof of these is the Okupa’s movement
in Wall Street, the “Indignados” movements in Spain
and the “Arab Spring” couldn’t have been possible
without Internet and the social network
mobilizations.
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