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The internet has often been hailed as a domain of benevolent anarchy, a place where communication is free. It is referred to as a ‘modern Hydra’ capable of circumventing regulation (Froomkin, 1999, p. 129) and a ‘space of no control’ (Lessig, 1999a, p. 24). As internet bard John Perry Barlow says, ‘Governments of the Industrial World… You have no sovereignty where we gather’ (cited in Lessig, 1999a, p. 218).
Research for this study was performed while resident at the Center for the Sociology of Innovation at the Ecole des Mines, Paris, with support from a Chateaubriand Fellowship from the French Embassy in the United States.
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Klein, H. (2004). Private Governance for Global Communications: Technology, Contracts, and the Internet. In: Braman, S. (eds) The Emergent Global Information Policy Regime. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230377684_9
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