CCT109H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Internet Governance, Virtual Community

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Jeremy Packer

Document Summary

Is it just the extensions of laws developed for other media: legal issues have expanded in unpredicted ways. Security issues: spamming, selling credit card numbers. Governance recognizes links between public and private sectors or between market and the state. Governments work to promote markets and private sector as much as they do to regulate and constrain them. View infrastructure of internet as manageable through self-governance: no outside help needed to regulate or control what happens on the internet. When you post onto youtube, you can only post certain videos. Nudity not allowed (but allowed in music videos: electronic frontier foundation. Less oversight, let people do what they want to do: free of state interferences and censorship. Still challenging two core parts of nation-state sovereignty: sovereignty over territory and sovereignty over citizens. Icann: govern allocation of domain names, disallow cybersquatting, different forms of internet governance (consider allocation of domain names)