CCT206H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Don Henley, Chuck Devore, Digital Artifact
16 Jul 2015
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Law, technology, and culture wed 2-3 oh cc3011. Electronic commerce: commercial transactions of data (buying and selling text, sound, info) regulated by laws. Cyberspace- the intangible world where different laws and groups of people co-exist. Human interaction tends towards order and has an aversion to chaos. Culture brings about communities, laws, order and stability. And so it is for cyberspace and the rule of cyberspace. Libertarian forces that believe that laws should not apply to the internet. Rule of law: individuals, persons and government shall submit to, obey and be regulated by law, and not arbitrary action by an individual or a group of individuals. Rule is also a verb; we are all equally governed by law not men. therefore to erase unfair hierarchies that may exist. Rule of cyberspace cannot just be based on the rule of law despite the parallels. Cyberspace is more dynamic due to technological innovation.
