Something else to add to my "to read" list

Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu's Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World. Here's a bit of Nicholas Carr's review:

The World Wide Web has always been viewed as a place apart. The constraints of the physical world - territorial boundaries, national and local laws, even distance itself - don't seem to apply to the virtual world, where everyone is every place (and no place) all the time....

In their excellent new book, Who Controls the Internet?, Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu calmly dismantle this view of the web, revealing it to be a naive and wishful fiction. They show, through a series of engaging examples, why the Internet, far from existing outside national boundaries and laws, is increasingly being shaped by those boundaries and laws. Location, it turns out, matters a great deal on the Internet, for technical, political and cultural reasons. The virtual world, like its physical counterpart, has a spiky geopolitical topography.

(Very weirdly, when you use the ecto Amazon search tool to look for Goldsmith and Wu's book on Amazon, the second hit is article from International Journal of Men's Health, Gay and bisexual male escorts who advertise on the Internet: understanding reasons for and effects of involvement in commercial sex. One of these things is not like the other.)

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