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These are the slides I used for "Power Politics in the Age of Google," a public panel presented by the Shorenstein Center of the Harvard Kennedy School on Feb 9, 2012.
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January 18, 2012
The Rise of
Networked Public Power
Micah L. Sifry
November 15, 2011
November 17, 2011
December 29, 2011
January 16, 2011
December 10, 2011
January 13, 2012
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BoingBoing.net
115,000 Websites Participated on January 18
What Google Did
What Wikipedia Did
• Wikipedia’s pages on SOPA/PIPA accessed 162 million times on January 18
• More than 8 million people used Wikipedia’s tool to look up their representatives’ contact info
• One percent of all tweets on Jan 18 use #wikipediablackout
What Firefox Did
• 30 million people saw the call to action on Firefox’s launch page
• 1.8 million went to a special Mozilla.org page to learn more
• 360,000 of those went to an EFF page to send emails opposing the bills
5 Million Watched Their Video
Congress Responds
