week 7: Media Implication in the Holocaust

The holocaust would have been completely different if the media implications that Clay Shirkey’s mention had been available at that time. Electronic devices such as cell phones, digital cameras, lab tops, ipods, and camcorders allow news to travel faster and reach a global audience in only a few seconds, as was the case with the earthquake in China. Cell phones alone are compose of all these electric elements, camera, recorder, camcorder, and internet, that bring people together on a global scale and connects us to the rest of the world.
Therefore, if these electronic devices would have been available in the 1940s then historical events, such as the holocaust, could have been prevented or stopped before it escalated to the point that it did. Americans, as well as the rest of the world, would have immediately known about Hitler’s plan to kill millions of jews and could of intervene before millions of Jews were killed. People everywhere would have had access to the pictures and videos that Jews and Germans would have posted on-line. These visual images and reports would of been shown in every news channel, both nationally and globally. Websites against the holocaust would of immediately developed as well as blogs and tweets regarding the genocide of jews and the need to intervene. This eventually, would have caused Americans to demand that the U.S. government intervene in this genocide and rescue the Jews from furthering mistreatment.

Do you think Hitler would of censor the internet and cellphones so news wouldn't spread, what would Hitler have done to prevent news from spread regarding the genocide of Jews?