On November 30, 2010, U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman publicly requests a Wihiliks blockade. Amazon, PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, Bank of America, Apple, and Western Union all stopped providing service to the app. With this image, we're really trying to show that this abstraction of the cloud is not as abstract as you think. It's actually very real.
Our series concludes with some revelations. Metahaven uses the story of Wikileaks to show us the infrastructure of the cloud and its super-jurisdictional powers. The BBC’s Paul Mason takes us on a wild tour of China in his novel Rare Earth. And a pile of iPhones brings your host a moment of clarity.
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