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In the ‘old game’, the analogue world of centralised knowledge institutions, knowledge was power.  But now that knowledge is everywhere, the rules of the game have changed. In his essay “Digital tailspin: 10 rules for the internet after Snowden” writer and activist Michael Seemann  (@mspro) examines how we’ve lost our ability to control the way information is spread online. Discussing everything from flashmobs to whistle-blowers, twitter to email encryption. Michael takes us from the ‘old game’  into the ‘new game’ – where information is no longer easily controlled. Anyone who has been the victim of revenge porn, or found themselves the star of a viral video is acutely aware of how helpless we are to fight the spread of information in the ‘new game’. What’s more, with sites like Wikileaks even governments and large corporations have found themselves similarly powerless. In his essay, Michael calls this idea the ‘kontrolverlust’ (‘loss of control’ – German) or ‘digital tailspin’, and lays out ten strategi