According to information compiled from Netcraft, Internet World Stats and Verisign, 2009 saw an amazing rise in the number of Web sites and Internet users. There were 247 million Web sites as of December, of which 47 million were created in 2009. During the year, 90 trillion emails were sent by 1.4 billion email users around the globe. In just 2009, 100 million new users were added. As of September, there were 1.73 billion Internet users. A total of 126 million blogs were created through the end of 2009 and 27.3 million tweets were sent per day. Facebook broke all kinds of records with 350 million users. Over one billion videos were streamed by YouTube servers per day. On Jan. 22, 2010, the first Tweet from space was sent by Thimoty J. Creamer from the International Space Station.
These numbers are immense when compared to any brick-and-mortar business. The online world has dominated the real world with high commerce volumes and the number of intellectual debating platforms. That’s why the governments are stepping in with heavy censorship measures. They are trying to control what they fear. The inability to understand what the Internet is makes governments frantic when it comes to regulations.
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