Regulating Cyberspace : The Policies and Technologies of Control


Richard A. Spinello
Bok Engelsk 2002 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt
Santa Barbara : : ABC-CLIO, , 2002.
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1 online resource (262 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Global Connectivity and Internet Access; 2 Creating and Regulating the Internet; 3 Decentralizing Regulation; 4 Electronic Commerce and the Network Economy; 5 Competition and Antitrust Issues in Cyberspace; 6 Freedom of Expression and Content Controls; 7 Intellectual Property Wars and Knowledge Monopolies; 8 Privacy Rights and the Internet; 9 Cybercrime, Encryption, and Government Surveillance; 10 Epilogue; Index. - This visionary book presents an interdisciplinary and cogent approach to the issue of Internet governance and control. By examining five critical areas in which the tension between freedom and control is most palpable-fair competition and open access, free expression, intellectual property, privacy rights, and security-Spinello guides the reader on a tour of the emerging body of law and public policy that has attempted to control the anarchy of cyberspace. In so doing, he defends the credo of Internet self-regulation, asserting that the same powerful and flexible architectures that created the
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