Who Controls the Internet, Illusions of a Borderless World
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Who Controls the Internet, Illusions of a Borderless World
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eng
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non fiction
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Who Controls the Internet
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electronic resource eBook
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dictionaries
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Illusions of a Borderless World
Summary
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
Table Of Contents
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Yahoo! -- Part 1 The Internet Revolution -- 2 Visions of a Post-Territorial Order -- 3 The God of the Internet -- Part 2 Government Strikes Back -- 4 Why Geography Matters -- 5 How Governments Rule the Net -- 6 China -- 7 The Filesharing Movement -- Part 3 Vices, Virtues, the Future -- 8 Virtues and Vices of Government Control -- 9 Consequences of Borders -- 10 Global Laws -- 11 Conclusion: Globalization Meets Governmental Coercion -- Acknowledgments -- Frequently Used Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index
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