Who Controls the Internet? : Illusions of a Borderless World

Illusions of a Borderless World

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Law, Communications, Computers, Internet
Cover of the book Who Controls the Internet? : Illusions of a Borderless World by Jack Goldsmith;Tim Wu, Oxford University Press, USA
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Author: Jack Goldsmith;Tim Wu ISBN: 9780199839667
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Publication: February 24, 2006
Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA Language: English
Author: Jack Goldsmith;Tim Wu
ISBN: 9780199839667
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication: February 24, 2006
Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English

Is the Internet erasing national borders? Will the future of the Net be set by Internet engineers rogue programmers the United Nations or powerful countries? Who's really in control of what's happening on the Net? In this provocative new book Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu tell the fascinating story of the Internet's challenge to governmental rule in the 1990s and the ensuing battles with governments around the world. It's a book about the fate of one idea--that the Internet might liberate us forever from government borders and even our physical selves. We learn of Google's struggles with the French government and Yahoo's capitulation to the Chinese regime; of how the European Union sets privacy standards on the Net for the entire world; and of eBay's struggles with fraud and how it slowly learned to trust the FBI. In a decade of events the original vision is uprooted as governments time and time again assert their power to direct the future of the Internet. The destiny of the Internet over the next decades argue Goldsmith and Wu will reflect the interests of powerful nations and the conflicts within and between them. While acknowledging the many attractions of the earliest visions of the Internet the authors describe the new order and speaking to both its surprising virtues and unavoidable vices. Far from destroying the Internet the experience of the last decade has lead to a quiet rediscovery of some of the oldest functions and justifications for territorial government. While territorial governments have unavoidable problems it has proven hard to replace what legitimacy governments have and harder yet to replace the system of rule of law that controls the unchecked evils of anarchy. While the Net will change some of the ways that territorial states govern it will not diminish the oldest and most fundamental roles of government and challenges of governance. Well written and filled with fascinating examples including colorful portraits of many key players in Internet history this is a work that is bound to stir heated debate in the cyberspace community.

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Is the Internet erasing national borders? Will the future of the Net be set by Internet engineers rogue programmers the United Nations or powerful countries? Who's really in control of what's happening on the Net? In this provocative new book Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu tell the fascinating story of the Internet's challenge to governmental rule in the 1990s and the ensuing battles with governments around the world. It's a book about the fate of one idea--that the Internet might liberate us forever from government borders and even our physical selves. We learn of Google's struggles with the French government and Yahoo's capitulation to the Chinese regime; of how the European Union sets privacy standards on the Net for the entire world; and of eBay's struggles with fraud and how it slowly learned to trust the FBI. In a decade of events the original vision is uprooted as governments time and time again assert their power to direct the future of the Internet. The destiny of the Internet over the next decades argue Goldsmith and Wu will reflect the interests of powerful nations and the conflicts within and between them. While acknowledging the many attractions of the earliest visions of the Internet the authors describe the new order and speaking to both its surprising virtues and unavoidable vices. Far from destroying the Internet the experience of the last decade has lead to a quiet rediscovery of some of the oldest functions and justifications for territorial government. While territorial governments have unavoidable problems it has proven hard to replace what legitimacy governments have and harder yet to replace the system of rule of law that controls the unchecked evils of anarchy. While the Net will change some of the ways that territorial states govern it will not diminish the oldest and most fundamental roles of government and challenges of governance. Well written and filled with fascinating examples including colorful portraits of many key players in Internet history this is a work that is bound to stir heated debate in the cyberspace community.

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