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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.… (meer)
An excellent short history of the Internet that tries to put to rest the 90's libertarian prophecy of the Internet as the great globalizer and destroyer of nation states. The authors put clear arguments forward that show how the physical coercion of territorial governments can control the Internet, with the great firewall of China as an extreme example. Governments can coerce ISPs, which in turn can filter and shape the Internet. They can coerce financial service providers, which can make or break an online vendor. And so on. But this is not such a bad thing, according to them. The authors point out how the mundane presence of government gives the Internet the stability it needs to thrive as a marketplace. Their argument is valid, but I cannot imagine it will convince the most radical of the Internet libertarians. Stability is only necessary for businesses looking to make a buck through the Internet. The hippie culture of the early Internet enthusiasts could care less about the fortunes of eBay, wsj.com, Yahoo!, or any other example the authors bring forward.
Overall, this is a great read. It's fairly short, and manages to put forth a narrative style throughout much of it, which makes it that much more engaging.
The story about Jon Postel splitting the root of the Internet in the late 90's was particularly interesting. I'm don't know how I managed to earn my degree without learning about that before. ( )
This book lucidly debunks the notion that the Internet inherently possesses territorial independence or extra-legality, mostly by clearly laying out various ways that governments can (and do) enact enforceable restrictions upon Internet content and behavior. Recommended. ( )
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
The new technologies will bring "every individual...into immediate and effortless communication with every other," "practically obliterate" political geography, and make free trade universal. Thanks to technological advance, "there [are] no longer any foreigners," and we can look forward to "the gradual adoption of a common language."
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
To our friend Larry Lessig
Eerste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
The invention of the telegraph inspired these words.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
In the coming decades, these factors, an the consequent struggles between nations and their national network ideologies, will do much to determine how life on the bordered Internet is lived.
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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Overall, this is a great read. It's fairly short, and manages to put forth a narrative style throughout much of it, which makes it that much more engaging.
The story about Jon Postel splitting the root of the Internet in the late 90's was particularly interesting. I'm don't know how I managed to earn my degree without learning about that before. (