1 00:00:09,709 --> 00:00:12,870 Rap News in effect! The time has arrived to delve in the depths 2 00:00:12,970 --> 00:00:15,857 of the very medium that permits us to connect: The Internet. 3 00:00:15,957 --> 00:00:18,328 In existence for only a short time, as we know it today, 4 00:00:18,462 --> 00:00:21,306 yet it has already changed the course of history in notable ways. 5 00:00:21,406 --> 00:00:23,125 Its advent has been a Revolution against 6 00:00:23,225 --> 00:00:26,540 centuries of centralised control over the flow of information; 7 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:28,900 It's been a Revelation, like the mythical grail, 8 00:00:29,091 --> 00:00:31,734 giving us access to vast knowledge on a biblical scale; 9 00:00:31,878 --> 00:00:34,099 It has marked an Evolution, markedly extending 10 00:00:34,199 --> 00:00:37,192 human consciousness far past our previous limitations. 11 00:00:37,292 --> 00:00:39,577 But the Internet is still in its youthful stages, 12 00:00:39,677 --> 00:00:42,541 still very much evolving and changing. And since its fate 13 00:00:42,641 --> 00:00:44,926 and that of humanity are deeply merged and connected 14 00:00:45,026 --> 00:00:47,257 it would be wise to give it our urgent attention; 15 00:00:47,357 --> 00:00:50,221 for beneath the surface tension, the Internet is a violent war zone 16 00:00:50,321 --> 00:00:53,280 With rival forces fighting to shape it, and vying for control 17 00:00:53,380 --> 00:00:55,588 like... - Zuckerberg, bitches, I'm back on my grind! 18 00:00:55,688 --> 00:00:57,838 I've left my Mark on the Net and every bastard alive 19 00:00:57,938 --> 00:01:01,036 Well, actually not quite: billions are still sadly deprived 20 00:01:01,136 --> 00:01:03,277 of the sacred right to connect their asses online... 21 00:01:03,377 --> 00:01:06,294 - You can provide the Internet planet wide? - Damn right! 22 00:01:06,394 --> 00:01:09,281 - Great! How? - Behold my scam... er: plan. It's tight! 23 00:01:09,381 --> 00:01:12,192 Internet.org: which sounds like 'Internet' but is actually shite 24 00:01:12,292 --> 00:01:14,634 We've scrapped net neutrality and our competitors' sites. 25 00:01:14,734 --> 00:01:17,110 It'll be like 'yo, guys, Here's the Internet'... Psych! 26 00:01:17,210 --> 00:01:19,619 Cos these suckers will only see the Zuckernet. Like! 27 00:01:19,719 --> 00:01:22,142 Internet: this is what you too will resemble in time, 28 00:01:22,242 --> 00:01:25,283 a walled garden, nothing like the wild forest you were in your prime 29 00:01:25,383 --> 00:01:27,883 - I'm inspired! And you'll provide our usual backdoor 30 00:01:27,983 --> 00:01:31,249 to spy on all those brown... I mean new users on Internet.org. - For sure! 31 00:01:31,349 --> 00:01:33,537 - Ah, another force fighting to shape the Net's form. 32 00:01:33,637 --> 00:01:36,190 General Baxter from the NSA: Can you hear us? - Of course! 33 00:01:36,324 --> 00:01:39,187 We hear everything. Hey, bros! This is your big bro, good day 34 00:01:39,287 --> 00:01:40,930 We've been watching you, and we know you're afraid. 35 00:01:41,030 --> 00:01:43,850 Of course you are: the net is dangerous place, true: 36 00:01:43,975 --> 00:01:46,551 full of terrorists like ISIS, Anonymous, the Russians... and YOU! 37 00:01:46,651 --> 00:01:48,591 - What should we do? - Simple: do nothing. 38 00:01:48,691 --> 00:01:51,205 We'll keep you totally safe if you just stay out of our way 39 00:01:51,305 --> 00:01:53,493 while we make this place into the most potent array 40 00:01:53,593 --> 00:01:56,218 for global surveillance humanity has ever known to this day 41 00:01:56,318 --> 00:01:59,191 - Don't be led astray! This NSA is part of a wack plan 42 00:01:59,316 --> 00:02:01,863 - Terence Moonseed, you're back! - This may be my last chance 43 00:02:01,963 --> 00:02:04,783 to fact slam the fascists with my research and hack every bandwidth 44 00:02:04,883 --> 00:02:07,407 Before they use the internet to mentally hijack the very language 45 00:02:07,507 --> 00:02:10,586 that we brandish every day to communicate, we are now in a battle 46 00:02:10,686 --> 00:02:13,115 And the Googilluminati are building a tower of Babel 47 00:02:13,239 --> 00:02:15,461 using the net to trap us in a web to feed Baphomet 48 00:02:15,561 --> 00:02:18,582 reducing us to babbling emoji addicts, and rebranding the Alphabet 49 00:02:18,682 --> 00:02:21,087 But I have the key to reclaim the Net and boost the truth through 50 00:02:21,187 --> 00:02:23,504 To find out more: Like me on Facebook and subscribe on YouTube! 51 00:02:23,604 --> 00:02:25,898 - Like! - Ha ha! Moon-nut! You are Dumb as Fuck 52 00:02:25,998 --> 00:02:28,924 - Shut up, Baxter! Don't you have more female soldier rapes to cover up?? 53 00:02:29,024 --> 00:02:31,826 - Ok, let's speak to another key player on the Internet stage 54 00:02:31,941 --> 00:02:32,985 Julian Assange. - Hello. 55 00:02:33,085 --> 00:02:34,459 - What's your vision of the Net's fate? 56 00:02:34,559 --> 00:02:37,284 - Moongeek's right: it's a battle, we have to fight rigorously. 57 00:02:37,384 --> 00:02:39,889 But not by getting lost in idle conspiracies. 58 00:02:39,989 --> 00:02:42,407 The truth is we ourselves are responsible for turning 59 00:02:42,507 --> 00:02:44,763 the Net into nineteen-eighty-four, lured into 60 00:02:44,863 --> 00:02:47,645 the commercial surveillance complex by "free services". 61 00:02:47,745 --> 00:02:50,556 Wake up, Internet: we're building our own prison, and being interned in it 62 00:02:50,656 --> 00:02:53,199 There's only one effective weapon to end our complicity; 63 00:02:53,299 --> 00:02:55,900 Go underground, hide our tracks, by using cryptography! 64 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,600 It's cheap and can resist any superpower to the bitter end 65 00:02:58,700 --> 00:03:01,214 Then we'll hold the private key to saving the Internet. 66 00:03:01,314 --> 00:03:03,819 - Save the Internet? That's just incredibly Ghey 67 00:03:03,991 --> 00:03:06,539 Internet, just give the finger to anyone attempting to shape 68 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:09,162 your way of thinking with lame political stuff, just Listen: 69 00:03:09,262 --> 00:03:11,566 The Internet is at its best when zero fucks are given. 70 00:03:11,666 --> 00:03:14,569 Social Justice Warriors? PC pussies? Feminism? 71 00:03:14,669 --> 00:03:17,551 That's all gayer than Gay Rights! What, you fags, I'm kidding! 72 00:03:17,651 --> 00:03:20,682 Seriously, though: don't spoil the lulz for us straight white males by giving 73 00:03:20,782 --> 00:03:23,153 a voice to minorities online. That's oppression! 74 00:03:23,354 --> 00:03:25,882 - Dirty infidel kufs, tremble before the might of ISIS 75 00:03:25,982 --> 00:03:29,138 We hold the Internet hostage and it'll be our pride to sacrifice it. 76 00:03:29,291 --> 00:03:31,618 Unless our demands are met, we'll set fire to it 77 00:03:31,718 --> 00:03:35,266 plunging your lives into crisis... 78 00:03:35,366 --> 00:03:38,321 - Moving on: believe it or not before the Internet appeared to us 79 00:03:38,421 --> 00:03:40,600 People used to get their info from the Mainstream Media 80 00:03:40,700 --> 00:03:43,243 Let's tune into those channels now and check the net effects: 81 00:03:43,343 --> 00:03:45,838 - This is Brian Washington on MSMBS 82 00:03:45,938 --> 00:03:48,347 Headlies Tonight: Mainstream media is under threat 83 00:03:48,447 --> 00:03:51,287 from too many people now choosing to get their news from the Internet 84 00:03:51,387 --> 00:03:54,198 These cyber-terrorists are massacring TV ratings. It's a jihad! 85 00:03:54,298 --> 00:03:56,592 We've had to adapt using hashtags. Tweet that! 86 00:03:56,692 --> 00:03:58,996 In the global battle to stay relevant we're fighting so hard. 87 00:03:59,096 --> 00:04:01,840 Even in Australia; is that right? - Ken Oathcarn 88 00:04:01,940 --> 00:04:04,454 Murdoch media here, trynna infiltrate and swamp the online 89 00:04:04,554 --> 00:04:07,260 with bullshit to make it as asinine as what we provide. 90 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:09,874 - And besides, even if that fails we can always rely 91 00:04:09,974 --> 00:04:12,603 on the NBN to make Australia's Net the dodgiest you can find 92 00:04:12,703 --> 00:04:15,007 - Brilliant, Ken. And what about the Russian media 93 00:04:15,107 --> 00:04:17,870 - Ivan Sakamunev, Priviet Russiya. 94 00:04:17,970 --> 00:04:20,547 You weak western media, while you are losing 95 00:04:20,647 --> 00:04:22,639 Russia learn way to beat Internet, using 96 00:04:22,739 --> 00:04:25,550 YouTube, troll armies, and this cable news thing 97 00:04:25,650 --> 00:04:28,499 to make you Question Everything, Except Putin. 98 00:04:28,599 --> 00:04:31,094 - Expose everything! Unite! - Encrypt everything, twice! 99 00:04:31,194 --> 00:04:33,938 - Accept these terms: sign! - Embrace the dark side 100 00:04:34,038 --> 00:04:36,596 - Change to survive! - Don't change: You're just fine. - Lies! 101 00:04:36,696 --> 00:04:39,272 - Idiots! - Infidels! - Terrorists! - Fascists! - Fags! - Like! 102 00:04:39,372 --> 00:04:41,953 - Right, calm down everyone! It seems the only effective way 103 00:00:00,000 --> 00:04:44,271 we'll know for sure who among you will shape the Net's fate 104 00:04:44,371 --> 00:04:46,952 is to consult directly with the Internet's central brain 105 00:04:47,057 --> 00:04:49,686 via this Interwebs Consciousness Interface Mainframe... 106 00:04:49,786 --> 00:04:52,295 Hello? - Greetings Internet denizens! 107 00:04:52,395 --> 00:04:55,197 - Many thanks for appearing as a guest and manifesting in 108 00:04:55,297 --> 00:04:58,251 human form, so that we can commence conversing direct. 109 00:04:58,351 --> 00:05:00,961 Let's interact: how are you progressing, Internet? 110 00:05:01,061 --> 00:05:02,992 - I've come a long way since the Arpanet 111 00:05:03,092 --> 00:05:05,577 where hardly any terminals are connected. 112 00:05:05,677 --> 00:05:08,201 A limited infant, slow... despite every effort 113 00:05:08,301 --> 00:05:10,911 I took forever to load text. And pics... ah forget it! 114 00:05:11,011 --> 00:05:13,429 But then I hit puberty, my neural nets extending, 115 00:05:13,529 --> 00:05:16,111 connecting humans through countries.. hemispheres anything 116 00:05:16,211 --> 00:05:18,754 via fibre optical cables crossing the ocean tables expanding 117 00:05:18,854 --> 00:05:21,339 to fleets of satellites wi-fi signals orbiting the planet 118 00:05:21,439 --> 00:05:23,867 My exponential connective potential was unleashed as my bandwidth increased 119 00:05:23,967 --> 00:05:26,491 to enable 4k YouTube streams to splash on the screen 120 00:05:26,591 --> 00:05:29,105 and my particular passion - gaming! - Skyrim, Battlefield, 121 00:05:29,205 --> 00:05:31,796 COD, World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Assassin's creed 122 00:05:31,896 --> 00:05:34,401 Now as an adolescent I've ascended heights sending endless terabytes 123 00:05:34,501 --> 00:05:36,938 of news, cute pets, Darkwebs, forums, and feeds of every type 124 00:05:37,038 --> 00:05:39,964 Bitcoin blockchains, VPN, Porn, Code, Tor nodes, Clouds, memes... 125 00:05:40,064 --> 00:05:42,272 I'm in the prime of my life; ...and you'd all be fucked without me. 126 00:05:42,372 --> 00:05:44,877 - You've achieved so much and in such a short era too 127 00:05:44,977 --> 00:05:47,467 Yet you're still young... with your whole life ahead of you 128 00:05:47,567 --> 00:05:50,115 What do you want to become when you reach adulthood? 129 00:05:50,215 --> 00:05:52,700 - Personally, I wanted to be a cat breeder. (Cats are cute!) 130 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:55,314 But ultimately the choice is yours, not mine to make: 131 00:05:55,414 --> 00:05:57,823 Would you like me to enforce a police state? Right this way. 132 00:05:57,923 --> 00:06:00,840 Or I can be an ally in the fight against all forms that power can take. 133 00:06:00,940 --> 00:06:03,459 I could be your playground... or a profit-driven market place 134 00:06:03,559 --> 00:06:05,752 The real question's not which one of these paths to chase; 135 00:06:05,852 --> 00:06:08,405 but whether you can pursue them all - in a balanced way, 136 00:06:08,505 --> 00:06:11,000 So that they keep each other in check with restraint 137 00:06:11,100 --> 00:06:13,336 without letting any one of them dominate. 138 00:06:14,007 --> 00:06:19,178 Because for certain, isn't everyone's hope to grow into a balanced person? 139 00:06:21,332 --> 00:06:23,324 Thank you, Internet, for speaking to us tonight 140 00:06:23,424 --> 00:06:26,532 in the guise of a human at this critical juncture in your young life, 141 00:06:26,632 --> 00:06:29,146 reminding us that we gave birth to you, and as such 142 00:06:29,246 --> 00:06:31,262 are the ones responsible for how you grow up. 143 00:06:31,362 --> 00:06:34,528 Like proud parents, we are curious, and anxious, to discover it, 144 00:06:34,628 --> 00:06:36,548 for your fate and ours are utterly linked 145 00:06:36,648 --> 00:06:39,823 you've brought us Revolution, Revelation, Evolution, and on top of this 146 00:06:39,923 --> 00:06:42,361 You clearly have the potential to also bring us Apocalypse. 147 00:06:42,461 --> 00:06:45,808 A soaring thought, I admit: but given the powers you possess in your wires 148 00:06:45,908 --> 00:06:47,992 if you really were a human we might call you, "Messiah". 149 00:06:48,092 --> 00:06:50,376 The Netssiah? Could this be what the Internet is, 150 00:06:50,476 --> 00:06:52,981 after all? The reason why it's transpired? 151 00:06:53,081 --> 00:06:55,700 We imagined a saviour would one day come in a human body 152 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:58,640 Instead, our yearning manifested itself as a tool, a technology. 153 00:06:58,740 --> 00:07:01,044 Could this be the outcome of our messianic prophecies? 154 00:07:01,144 --> 00:07:03,658 the corollary of billions of lives, dreams, battles, and odysseys? 155 00:07:03,758 --> 00:07:06,473 Being conscious of this moment, however you wish to imagine it, 156 00:07:06,573 --> 00:07:09,269 is the first step in shaping the fate of the Internet, and thus humanity. 157 00:07:09,442 --> 00:07:12,650 This is Robert Foster, signing off. It's been a sincere privilege 158 00:07:12,750 --> 00:07:17,284 examining the ways in which history is happening - here on the Internet. 159 00:07:18,702 --> 00:07:22,034 Subtitles by .koolfy Translation to -language- by -name-