01618nam a2200265Ia 4500 TVU_12021 210423s9999 xx 000 0 und d 0195152662 9780195152661 eng 303.4833 J102 Goldsmith, Jack Who controls the Internet? illusions of a borderless world Jack Goldsmith, Tim Wu New York Oxford University Press 2006 xii, 226 p. 24 cm 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 entire world; and of eBay's struggles with fraud and how it slowly learned to trust the FBI. In a decade of events the original vision is uprooted, as governments time and time again assert their power to direct the future of the Internet. The destiny of the Internet over the next decades, argue Goldsmith and Wu, will reflect the interests of powerful nations and the conflicts within and between them Internet; Internet; Internet Jack Goldsmith; Tim Wu Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh