Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World

Name: Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World
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ISBN: 9780195340648

ISBN-10: 0195340647

ISBN-13: 9780195340648

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jack Goldsmith, Tim Wu

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Is the Internet erasing national borders? Who's really in control of what's happening on the Net--Internet engineers, rogue programmers, the United Nations, or powerful countries? In this provocative new book, Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu tell the fascinating story of the Internet's challenge to governmental rule in the 1990s, and the ensuing battles with governments around the world. It's a book about the fate of one idea--that the Internet might liberate us forever from government, borders, and even our physical selves. We learn of Google's struggles with the French government and Yahoo's capitulation to the Chinese regime; of how the European Union sets privacy standards on the Net for the…

Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English