Cyber-Warfare..Oh boy

Okay, I'm going to be brutally honest..and I hope no one takes offense to this, but this was one of THE driest (most boring) pieces we have yet read. I'm sorry, this just killed me, like yes it's pretty important and has quite an impact on the field we are in..and the world in general, but I just couldn't do it..I mean I read it (okay, more honesty-about 83% of it..ok 73%!!)

Now, from what I read there are several big terms (that I hope we go over in class/not really) but it discussed terms such as belligerent humanitarianism, warhawk hysteria, traumatized nationalism and realpolitik...now can't say I went and looked these terms up, but the gist of all of this is that the US and China have both been relying on forms of rhetoric to influence how their citizens and our global society perceives them. Also, the main point of this article was this whole concept of China either cyber-spying on US and Google, or cyber-intrusions, whatever they finally decided to term it...they claim it was happening, happening so that China could begin forming their own Silicon Valley by stealing Google's algorithms...another concept I picked up on was that (and I may be confused) but that there was argumentation over whether this whole situation was Google pulling away from China..or China pulling away from the world (aka Google). And an overall concept being international rights and free speech- but as I said, I gotta continue to be honest..I was not into this reading at all...

one quote I did like, when it was talking about Hilary Clinton's speech concerning belligerent humanitarianism, was how she began, "the spread of information networks is forming a new nervous system for our planet." and that the US "stand[s] for a single Internet where all of humanity has equal access to knowledge and ideas." (417) Oh! and another one from the same page, "the new iconic infrastructure of our age is the Internet. Instead of division, it stands for connection." (which was after she made a reference to the Berlin Wall.

Anyways..on to the next readings...sorry for the delay, Charlie Kang has been stealing all of my attention.