Three degree of internet regulation
In the early 1990s, the Internet morphed from a research / academic / military to today’s foundation for commercial trade. That was also the first time when the legislative attempts to regulate the Internet were initiated. While some attempts have been successful, most have not.
No entity that is as complex as global and the Internet is completely free from regulation. The Internet protocol’s software and infrastructure has been largely self-developed and self-regulated through cooperative national and international bodies. Internet content is often regulated through existing laws, including those covering telecommunications, copyright and patent, obscenity, and fraud, among others. The Internet’s global nature ie often results in clashes between laws in different countries. France, for example, has tried regulating Yahoo! and eBay auctions of Nazi-era artifacts under a French law that conflicts with U.S. free speech law.
The past failures to regulate the Internet have not prevented from other attempts being initiated, however. For example, three areas of Internet regulation are addressed in ..
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