Who controls the internet? : illusions of a borderless world /

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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 pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Goldsmith, Jack L.
Other Authors: Wu, Tim
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Internet > Social aspects.
Internet > Government policy.
Internet > Law and legislation.
Internet > Aspect social.
Internet > Politique gouvernementale.
COMPUTERS > Information Technology.
Internet > Government policy
Internet > Law and legislation
Internet > Social aspects
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Yahoo!
  • Visions of a post-territorial order
  • The god of the Internet
  • Why geography matters
  • How governments rule the Net
  • China
  • The filesharing movement
  • Virtues and vices of government control
  • Consequences of borders
  • Global laws
  • Conclusion: Globalization meets governmental coercion.

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