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Implementación De Políticas Corporativas Sobre Internet Y Redes Sociales En México, Rodolfo C. Rivas Rea Esq. Oct 2012

Implementación De Políticas Corporativas Sobre Internet Y Redes Sociales En México, Rodolfo C. Rivas Rea Esq.

Rodolfo C. Rivas

The author analyzes and describes the necessary elements of a successful social media and Internet corporate policy; through citing common pitfalls and learning lessons from different jurisdictions across the world. The author then offers general guidelines on policies for Mexican enterprises under Mexican legislation.///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////El autor analiza y describe los elementos necesarios de una política corporativa sobre internet y redes sociales exitosa, citando los errores más comunes y aprendiendo lecciones de las legislaciones de distintos países.


Sealand, Havenco, And The Rule Of Law, James Grimmelmann Dec 2011

Sealand, Havenco, And The Rule Of Law, James Grimmelmann

James Grimmelmann

In 2000, a group of American entrepreneurs moved to a former World War II anti-aircraft platform in the North Sea, seven miles off the British coast, and launched HavenCo, one of the strangest start-ups in Internet history. A former pirate radio broadcaster, Roy Bates, had occupied the platform in the 1960s, moved his family aboard, and declared it to be the sovereign Principality of Sealand. HavenCo's founders were opposed to governmental censorship and control of the Internet; by putting computer servers on Sealand, they planned to create a "data haven" for unpopular speech, safely beyond the reach of any other …


Legitimacy And Authority In Internet Coordination: A Domain Name Case Study, Joseph P. Liu Dec 1998

Legitimacy And Authority In Internet Coordination: A Domain Name Case Study, Joseph P. Liu

Joseph P. Liu

The process of crafting and promulgating technical standards for the internet is often hailed as a prime example of how coordinated activity can take place on a distributed network with little central authority or formal “law.”  Often overlooked, however, is the fact that the internet’s technical standard-setting process rests on a number of highly contingent assumptions, assumptions that do not apply in other areas of internet governance.  This paper explores the limits of this dominant standard-setting approach to internet coordination, using the current controversy over internet domain names as a case study.  Such a case study reveals that existing attempts …