5. Code is Law
Architecture regulates online
environments.
Norms can be built into the
architecture.
Technocracy?
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6. New Cyber-
conservatism
“The Internet doesn’t change
everything with respect to how
governmental authority
regulates online environments.”
Governmental control is both
possible (and desirable).
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7. Choke-points
Control the access points: ISPs,
DNS, country backbone.
Gateways, intermediaries, gate-
keepers.
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8. Anarchy in the UK
(and everywhere else)
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13. Some Characteristics of
scale-free networks
Self-organizing (favours fitness peaks)
Long-tails (Pareto distributions)
Resilient (but vulnerable to cascading failures)
Small world connections (six degrees of separation)
Centrality: some hubs can be more important if
they have a central role in the network.
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14. Let’s look back at Internet
Regulation theories
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22. Conservatism -
gatekeeping
While Internet is supposed
to be distributed, it is
increasingly centralised.
The only way to control
the Web is through central
control
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