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Foucault In Cyberspace: Surveillance, Sovereignty, And Hardwired Censors, James Boyle
Foucault In Cyberspace: Surveillance, Sovereignty, And Hardwired Censors, James Boyle
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This is an essay about law in cyberspace. I focus on three interdependent phenomena: a set of political and legal assumptions that I call the jurisprudence of digital libertarianism, a separate but related set of beliefs about the state's supposed inability to regulate the Internet, and a preference for technological solutions to hard legal issues on-line. I make the familiar criticism that digital libertarianism is inadequate because of its blindness towards the effects of private power, and the less familiar claim that digital libertarianism is also surprisingly blind to the state's own power in cyberspace. In fact, I argue that …