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What kinds of governance are even required on mediums used to communicate information?

• pulledpork 14y ago
  Whatever they can get away with would be my guess
  • noarchy 14y ago
    I think that this is what most government default to on most things.
• rayiner 14y ago
  That's a bit of a disingenuous charaterization. The internet is not just HTML anymore. It's a platform for commerce, education, entertainment, etc. That said, I don't think we particularly need governance on the internet, but more because we have adequate tools to achieve regulatory goals by asserting jurisdiction over meat-space endpoints. E.g. if some phony educational site is scamming people, I think it's adequate to be able to get the operator sitting in Nebraska instead of leveraging regulation on the internet itself.
  • derleth 14y ago
    > The internet is not just HTML anymore. Nor has it ever been, seeing as how it predates HTML by over a decade.
    • tptacek 14y ago
      ~2 decades.