When A Viral Upload Can Bring Change

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ur underpants sat on your sofa. If you are feeling really hedonistic don’t wear any pants at all, but maybe pop something on for the team Zoom meeting. You don’t necessarily want to be the talk of the virtual office if you get caught out.Online businesses abound. Etsy, eBay, and Amazon are just a few of the more well-known businesses and nearly every business has a website. Even my milkman has one. Click, add to basket, and you're done. What’s not to like?What else has it given us? Something much bigger than your weekly shop. Things that others may want to hide away, great wrongs that need to appear in the public domain, and have a seismic effect on society. According to a BBC article from the 11th June 2020 “By the time 17-year-old Darnella Frazier started recording, George Floyd was already gasping for air, begging, repeatedly “please, please”. The camera had been rolling for 20 seconds when Mr Floyd, 46 uttered three more words that have now become a rallying cry for protestors. “I can’t breathe,” Mr Floyd said.That terrible moment was recorded forever and according to the BBC, the video was uploaded onto Facebook. Due to the internet, there was no hiding place for the killing of a black man by a policeman. An image more powerful than words rocked the world but powerful words and protests came in its wake. They say the internet never forgets and that terrible video will remain entwined within it forever. A terrible indictment of police abuse and ultimately murder.That has been the true power of the i

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nternet, the web that brings us all together. It brings good and useful things to our lives but more importantly, it shows the travesties that can happen around us. It contains words, it contains images and videos. All things that cause us to question what is going on around us and DO something about it and facilitate change. And that can only be a good thing. Like the spider's web, it is strong and we all live and thrive within it.The internet is now ingrained in our changing society and so it should be as part of our daily lives. A tweet or a video uploaded in seconds can have a seismic effect on the world at large and cause us to think about where we are going and where we have come from.A black man died and a 17-year-old girl was there to record a terrible moment in history. Darnella Frazier will forever remain the young woman that recorded a terrible moment in the black history of America and the name of George Floyd will live on, as will those before him that have suffered similar fates at the hands of others.Forever we will remain indebted to them both and to the web that brought it to the world’s attention. And in doing so started a protest that the color of your skin can define your very life and death in the so-called “land of the free”.Yes, the internet is a useful part of our lives but it flings open the door to the wrongs that happen in this world. Wrongs that if exposed to the global village can bring about change and progress.And for that, we should thank it.</article></body>

Life before the internet? No, not for me.

I was born before the internet and can dimly remember times that contained a telephone box, a plugged-in landline, and horror of horrors getting up to change the TV channel. I can remember the first color television arriving at our house. Unbelievable to see a moving screen of color rather than grainy black and white images.

Life was simpler then? I don’t think so. It was a damned sight harder. Far from pressing buttons you physically had to DO everything.

Daily food shopping with a tribe of little people in tow and probably one of those little folk in a pushchair, add into that an array of heavy shopping bags and it must have been hell on earth. Lest we forget, once all that food had gone, out you went again dragging an army of little people and the dreaded pushchair for round two and then some more.

Now, due to the power of the net, we can do all this from home without taking hours out of our day.

We’ve also been given new job opportunities as a result of the Net. Remote working is now possible for many of us and it’s quite acceptable to be at work in your underpants sat on your sofa. If you are feeling really hedonistic don’t wear any pants at all, but maybe pop something on for the team Zoom meeting. You don’t necessarily want to be the talk of the virtual office if you get caught out.

Online businesses abound. Etsy, eBay, and Amazon are just a few of the more well-known businesses and nearly every business has a website. Even my milkman has one. Click, add to basket, and you're done. What’s not to like?

What else has it given us? Something much bigger than your weekly shop. Things that others may want to hide away, great wrongs that need to appear in the public domain, and have a seismic effect on society. According to a BBC article from the 11th June 2020 “By the time 17-year-old Darnella Frazier started recording, George Floyd was already gasping for air, begging, repeatedly “please, please”. The camera had been rolling for 20 seconds when Mr Floyd, 46 uttered three more words that have now become a rallying cry for protestors. “I can’t breathe,” Mr Floyd said.

That terrible moment was recorded forever and according to the BBC, the video was uploaded onto Facebook. Due to the internet, there was no hiding place for the killing of a black man by a policeman. An image more powerful than words rocked the world but powerful words and protests came in its wake. They say the internet never forgets and that terrible video will remain entwined within it forever. A terrible indictment of police abuse and ultimately murder.

That has been the true power of the internet, the web that brings us all together. It brings good and useful things to our lives but more importantly, it shows the travesties that can happen around us. It contains words, it contains images and videos. All things that cause us to question what is going on around us and DO something about it and facilitate change. And that can only be a good thing. Like the spider's web, it is strong and we all live and thrive within it.

The internet is now ingrained in our changing society and so it should be as part of our daily lives. A tweet or a video uploaded in seconds can have a seismic effect on the world at large and cause us to think about where we are going and where we have come from.

A black man died and a 17-year-old girl was there to record a terrible moment in history. Darnella Frazier will forever remain the young woman that recorded a terrible moment in the black history of America and the name of George Floyd will live on, as will those before him that have suffered similar fates at the hands of others.

Forever we will remain indebted to them both and to the web that brought it to the world’s attention. And in doing so started a protest that the color of your skin can define your very life and death in the so-called “land of the free”.

Yes, the internet is a useful part of our lives but it flings open the door to the wrongs that happen in this world. Wrongs that if exposed to the global village can bring about change and progress.

And for that, we should thank it.