the internet, is it a super power

[Benny2guns]

do super powers go around doing nothing but killing?

please look up fifth column.
i said it's like a fifth column superpower.

Tell us what that is? Super power means super power to me.

A superpower is a state with a leading position in the international system and the ability to influence events and its own interests and project power on a worldwide scale to protect those interests; it is traditionally considered to be one step higher than a great power.

Alice Lyman Miller (Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School), defines a superpower as "a country that has the capacity to project dominating power and influence anywhere in the world, and sometimes, in more than one region of the globe at a time, and so may plausibly attain the status of global hegemon."[1]

i agree with the basics of it though nuclear power isn't mentioned.

fifth column;
A fifth column is a group of people who clandestinely undermine a larger group, such as a nation, from within, to the aid of an external enemy.

i think the net is a mixture of these two things.

So it's a conspiracy theory then? I'm not being a twat either but thats what it sounds like, a group that clandestinely undermine's from within.
If thats the case then yes it's not like one it would be one. JMO

no it's fact.

look at the iranian protests and how they used the net to get messages out. the same thing happened in myanmar. and darfur. it happened in other places.


obama used the net to basically get funded. never happened before but now it's happening in the philippines. and it will be commonplace.

and while people did and do conspire to use the net to undermine, it isn't the same as a conspiracy theory.

the internet is changing the face and youth of africa, parts of china and russia etc to name a few. the net is being used to educate the world. it's like has never before been seen. like global economics, the net will play a bigger and bigger part in the way countries act and react to market forces. to some extent the net already controls a large part of the worlds functions.

just switch it off for a month and watch the chaos that ensues.

Well I don't know if it's a fact or not Bill but I don't think so. I hear alot of rumor and innuendo's on the topic but no real proof so to speak that I believe to be true to the extent you claim. Still a conspiracy theory as far as I can see. JMO