full transcript
From the Ted Talk by Tamas Kocsis: The case for a decentralized internet
Unscramble the Blue Letters
And it's very easy to abuse this peowr. For example, last year, a CEO of a company that acts as a gatekeeper for nine million websites decided, after some public pressure, that one of the sites it manages, a far right page, should be bcekold. He then sent an internal eiaml to his coworkers. "This was an arbitrary decision. I woke up this mnrinog in a bad mood and decided to kick them off the iennetrt." Even he admits, "No one should have this power." As a rensospe, one of the employees asked him, "Is this the day the Internet dies?"
Open Cloze
And it's very easy to abuse this _____. For example, last year, a CEO of a company that acts as a gatekeeper for nine million websites decided, after some public pressure, that one of the sites it manages, a far right page, should be _______. He then sent an internal _____ to his coworkers. "This was an arbitrary decision. I woke up this _______ in a bad mood and decided to kick them off the ________." Even he admits, "No one should have this power." As a ________, one of the employees asked him, "Is this the day the Internet dies?"
Solution
- morning
- power
- blocked
- response
- internet
- email
Original Text
And it's very easy to abuse this power. For example, last year, a CEO of a company that acts as a gatekeeper for nine million websites decided, after some public pressure, that one of the sites it manages, a far right page, should be blocked. He then sent an internal email to his coworkers. "This was an arbitrary decision. I woke up this morning in a bad mood and decided to kick them off the Internet." Even he admits, "No one should have this power." As a response, one of the employees asked him, "Is this the day the Internet dies?"
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
collocation |
frequency |
decentralized web |
2 |
giant corporations |
2 |
european parliament |
2 |
big corporations |
2 |
Important Words
- abuse
- acts
- admits
- arbitrary
- asked
- bad
- blocked
- ceo
- company
- coworkers
- day
- decided
- decision
- dies
- easy
- email
- employees
- gatekeeper
- internal
- internet
- kick
- manages
- million
- mood
- morning
- page
- power
- pressure
- public
- response
- sites
- websites
- woke
- year