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Portrait Of The Internet As A Young Man, Ann Bartow
Portrait Of The Internet As A Young Man, Ann Bartow
Ann Bartow
In brief, the core theory of Jonathan Zittrain’s 2008 book The Future of the Internet - and How to Stop It is this: good laws, norms, and code are needed to regulate the Internet, to prevent bad laws, norms, and code from compromising its creative capabilities and fettering its fecund flexibility. A far snarkier if less alliterative summary would be “We have to regulate the Internet to preserve its open, unregulated nature.”
Zittrain posits that either a substantive series of unfortunate Internet events or one catastrophic one will motivate governments to try to regulate cyberspace in a way that promotes …