Nobody would claim that regulators, or academics working on regulatory policy, have neglected the Internet. But most of … this work is attracted by the global character of the Internet. Admittedly this is a serious challenge to regulation. But … governance is cultural. The Internet originated in the egalitarian culture of American university computer labs. Its architecture …

Nobody would claim that regulators, or academics working on regulatory policy, have neglected the Internet. But most of … this work is attracted by the global character of the Internet. Admittedly this is a serious challenge to regulation. But … governance is cultural. The Internet originated in the egalitarian culture of American university computer labs. Its architecture …

The Internet epitomizes globalisation. There are not many international treaties on Internet issues so far. For the … time being, governance of the Internet by law will thus basically have to be governance by national law. Most cyber … Internet has more and even more profound challenges to governance by law: the libertarian beliefs of many Internet activists …

The Internet globalizes the world. National regulatory autonomy shrinks. Transferring data from one country to another …