9 maps that explained the Internet in 2014

This was a big year for the Internet, from the US debate over network neutrality to proposals to shift control of the World Wide Web to the global community. Here are maps that can help you understand how the Internet worked and how people used it in 2014:

1) Internet Freedom Around the World
2) When Ferguson hit Twitter
3) Everyone who clicked Facebook’s “I voted” button
4) Undersea cables mapped like the London Tube
5) A map of all the Comcast and Time Warner Cable customers who may find themselves under a new company's banner
6) T-Mobile got a lot of new spectrum from Verizon.
7) Devices connected to the Internet
8) Broadband subscription rates in the United States.
9) Barriers on public broadband networks