Chokepoints: Global Private Regulation on the Internet
2019; Brock University; Volume: 13; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.26522/ssj.v13i1.1845
ISSN1911-4788
Autores Tópico(s)Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
ResumoGoogle, eBay, GoDaddy and PayPal -intermediaries that now control huge swaths of the internet's search, marketplace, advertising, domain name, and payment activities -have become some of the leading threats to prospects for social justice.There have been significant victories in recent battles over the regulation of the internet, such as the 2012 "internet blackout" that stopped proposed American legislation that would have left web sites carrying intellectual property-infringing content vulnerable to total shutdown.Such victories are pyrrhic, as Natasha Tusikov's (2016) important book shows; effectively the same measures to shut down web services have been put in place anyway, without legislative oversight, through informal agreements between intellectual property owners, government officials, and internet intermediaries.Tusikov reveals that eight such agreements now regulate the internet, having been established privately through back room deals.Tusikov ( 2016) reveals in Chokepoints: Global Private Regulation on the Internet, that efforts to shut down Wikileaks by cutting off payment and domain services to the site launched a new phase in internet regulation; legislation would no longer be the primary tool of enforcement.Rather, a new wave of back room deals saw intermediaries agree to act as enforcers for corporate intellectual property owners.Through 90 interviews with government officials, corporate actors, and civil society groups in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada, Tusikov traces the establishment of the secret
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