complexity and internet regulation
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Presented at the Legal Theory Workshop, Edinburgh, 29 June 2013.TRANSCRIPT
Complexity and Internet RegulationAndrés Guadamuz
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Apologies
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Internet regulation theories
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Cyber Libertarianism“The Internet changes everything!”
The Internet cannot / should not be regulated.
Cyber-optimism.
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Code is LawArchitecture regulates online environments.
Norms can be built into the architecture.
Technocracy?
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New Cyber-conservatism
“The Internet doesn’t change everything with respect to how governmental authority regulates online environments.”
Governmental control is both possible (and desirable).
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Choke-pointsControl the access points: ISPs, DNS, country backbone.
Gateways, intermediaries, gate-keepers.
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Anarchy in the UK(and everywhere else)
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Complex networks
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The Internet as distributed architecture
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Random v scale-free networks
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The Internet is scale-free network
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Some Characteristics of scale-free networks
Self-organizing (favours fitness peaks)
Long-tails (Pareto distributions)
Resilient (but vulnerable to cascading failures)
Small world connections (six degrees of separation)
Centrality: some hubs can be more important if they have a central role in the network.
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Let’s look back at Internet Regulation theories
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Anarchy-LibertarianismResilient architectures
P2P and botnets are scale-free networks
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CodeSelf-organization.Self-similar, fractal: At practically all levels of granularity, the Web looks the same. Encoded organization?
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Conservatism - gatekeeping
While Internet is supposed to be distributed, it is increasingly centralised.
The only way to control the Web is through central control
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The centrality menace
Consumers sleepwalking into more central servicesResilience is replaced with control and vulnerability
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Concluding...
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Is it over yet?
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