An edition of Code: and other laws of cyberspace (1999)

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An edition of Code: and other laws of cyberspace (1999)

Code

and other laws of cyberspace

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Examines the relation between cyberspace and government, particularly the government's ability to regulate. Contrary to popular belief, cyberspace can be regulated through architecture and its representation as code. Government and commerce are working to regulate cyberspace, although each in a different way and for different reasons. In the opposite direction, cyberspace challenges the basic assumptions underlying American governance.

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Basic Books
Language
English
Pages
297

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1999, Basic Books
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New York

First Sentence

"A decade ago, in the Spring of 1989, Communism in Europe died—collapsed, as a tent would fall if its main post were removed."

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-288) and index.

Other Titles
Code

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
303.48/33
Library of Congress
K564.C6 L47 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 297 p.
Number of pages
297

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6807502M
Internet Archive
codeotherlawsofc00less
ISBN 10
046503912X
LCCN
00271772
OCLC/WorldCat
42860053
Library Thing
23239
Goodreads
72013

Work Description

Although the book is named Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Lessig uses this theme sparingly. It is a fairly simple concept: since cyberspace is entirely human-made, there are no natural laws to determine its architecture. While we tend to assume that what is in cyberspace is a given, in fact everything there is a construction based on decisions made by people. What we can and can't do there is governed by the underlying code of all of the programs that make up the Internet, which both permit and restrict. So while the libertarians among us rail against the idea of government, our freedoms in cyberspace are being determined by an invisible structure that is every bit as restricting as any laws that can come out of a legislature, legitimate or not. Even more important, this invisible code has been written by people we did not elect and who have no formal obligations to us, such as the members of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) or the more recently-developed Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). It follows that what we will be able to do in the future will be determined by code that will be written tomorrow, and we should be thinking about who will determine what this code will be. [from http://kcoyle.net/lessig.html]

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