Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World

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"Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World" is a nonfiction book by legal scholar Tim Wu that examines how governments, corporations, and other powerful actors shape and constrain the supposedly borderless realm of the internet.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
nonfiction book
addresses content regulation by states
cross-border disputes involving online activities
enforcement of intellectual property rights online
role of domain name system in jurisdictional control
author Jack Goldsmith
Tim Wu
concludes the future of the internet will continue to be shaped by nation-states and their laws
countryOfOrigin United States
critiques early cyber-libertarian claims that governments could not regulate the internet
notion that cyberspace is separate from territorial legal systems
focusesOn case studies of government intervention in online activities
conflicts between global platforms and national laws
relationship between cyberspace and real-world sovereignty
technical and legal mechanisms of control over internet infrastructure
format print
genre internet governance
legal studies
technology policy
hasPerspective emphasizes persistence of territorial sovereignty in cyberspace
views the internet as embedded in political and legal institutions
intendedAudience general readers interested in technology and law
legal scholars
policy makers
students of internet governance
language English
mainArgument corporations cooperate with states to enforce national rules on the internet
national governments retain significant control over the internet despite its global architecture
territorial laws and regulations shape online behavior and infrastructure
the idea of a completely borderless internet is an illusion
medium book
publisher Oxford University Press
relatedTo cyberlaw
global regulation of digital networks
information technology policy
internet governance debates
subject borderless internet myth
corporate power online
globalization
government control of the internet
international law
internet regulation
jurisdiction
state sovereignty

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Tim Wu
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