Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World - Hardcover

Goldsmith, Jack; Wu, Tim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195152662 ISBN 13: 9780195152661

Publisher: OUP USA, 2006

Synopsis

Who Controls the Internet Aims to dismiss the fashionable talk of both a 'borderless' net and of a single governing 'code'. Examining policy puzzles from e-commerce to privacy, speech and pornography, intellectual property, and cybercrime, this book demonstrates that individual governments, rather than private or global bodies, will play that dominant role in regulation. Full description

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Review

Sometimes it reads with the zip of an investigative thriller....Lane's story is intriguing (Steven Poole, Guardian)

Groundbreaking and easy to read. (Nick Fraser, Prospect)

Synopsis

Will cyberanarchy rule the net? And if we do find a way to regulate our cyberlife will national borders dissolve as the Internet becomes the first global state? In this provocative new work, Jack L. Goldsmith and Tim Wu dismiss the fashionable talk of both a 'borderless' net and of a single governing 'code'. Territorial governments can and will, they contend, exercise significant control over all aspects of Internet communications. Examining policy puzzles from e-commerce to privacy, speech and pornography, intellectual property, and cybercrime, Who Controls the Internet demonstrates that individual governments rather than private or global bodies will play that dominant role in regulation. Accessible and controversial, this work is bound to stir comment.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0195152662
• ISBN 13: 9780195152661
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 238