On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
So what impact did the day, that the internet blacked out in protest against SOPA and PIPA have on internet users and what are the volumes of traffic it affected. The 18th of Jan will always be remembered as the day when the internet went still and if you visited Wikipedia on that day all you got was a black screen. There were many websites that participated and to get a better idea check the infographic below.With tens of millions of participants, the blackout was the largest protest in history. Congress was flooded with over 400,000 calls – or 11.5 hours of phone calls per senator. Wikipedia's blackout constituted 1% of all tweets on the 18th. Source: frugaldad.com An original post by Sociolatte