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Moving Beyond Regulatory Mechanisms: A Typology Of Internet Control Regimes, Richard Reid Hunt
Moving Beyond Regulatory Mechanisms: A Typology Of Internet Control Regimes, Richard Reid Hunt
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This paper examines national Internet control from a policy regime perspective. The mechanisms through which governments attempt to control the Internet may be developed and implemented by different institutions and agencies, or fall outside of a formal regulatory structure entirely. As such, the totality of the institutions and practices of national Internet control is better conceptualized not as a regulatory regime, but as a control regime. After a survey of the critical policy and control dimensions, a six-part typology of control regimes is proposed. The purpose of this study and typology is exploratory. With comparative research about Internet control regimes …