Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World
by Jack Goldsmith, Tim Wu
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Author: Jack Goldsmith, Tim WuEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-06-30
ISBN: 0195340647
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Summary: 4 Stars
This is a competent work that challenges the oft-repeated clich? of the "Internet without borders". Written in an approachable style, it analyses a number of cases where governments, from the United States, through Europe to China and Australia, have successfully managed to control the Internet. Sometimes, as in China, this was accompanied by an unprecedented investment in IT infrastructure, demonstrating that intervention in the developing world, however problematic, does not always equal lack of innovation.
The authors give an accurate picture of various modes of intervention, and of their outcomes but if their book has a shortcoming, it is probably in its underestimation of the very real threat of government intervention in cyberspace. Although, they have successfully argued that intervention may sometimes be necessary (as in the case of eBay) they never provide the elements of a proper governance model.
Highly recommended.
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