CMNS 253W Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Online Gambling, Telemedicine, Cyberstalking
18 Jul 2016
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Unique characteristics of networked information: intangible, geographically distributed, recombinant, continually changing form, character. These characteristics confront legal tradition where legislation depended on: clearly demonstrable, localizable, liable legal persons, ownership titles. It"s difficult to implement laws through cyberspace because it"s hard to prosecute based on: non transparent communication, can be anonymous or hard to trace back to original source, evidence can be destroyed, hidden, erased, or even altered. Jurisdictional conflict situations: chines attempting to close down websites promoting the falun gong movement, french pressuring yahoo to block french citizens access to nazi memorabilia on its. There was a side that leaned more to deregulation built policies because: freely operated commercial market influenced gaining resources and promoting technological development. Clinton-gore global information infrastructure: prioritized private investment, free markets and competition, flexible regulation, removal of foreign investment barriers. Wto promoted free market and privatization of public telecommunication monopolies: felt communication companies were market based service providers with low universal service obligations.
