In a keynote speech yesterday, the Prime Minister declared the internet “the most powerful weapon for justice ever put in human hands”.

He said that in a “new world divided by vast distances” people were being united by the “instant ties of cyberspace”.

“Some dismiss the internet as a shouting match without a referee, but let us remember its power for change,” he said, reminding his audience of how Burma’s monks “with only a begging bowl and their blogs” gained the world’s support in their fight against oppression. 

He foresaw “a world without walls, borders, barriers and frontiers… meeting on Facebook if not face to face”. 

And he called for “a single moral universe” to fight HIV/Aids and bring about change.

The speech – to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in Edinburgh – came 20 years after Margaret Thatcher’s “Sermon on the Mound”, laying out her ideas on capitalism and the market economy, in the same city. 

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