[PDF TO BE CIRCULATED] “Who Controls the Internet: Illusions of a Borderless World” by Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu (2006). Read p. 1-22.

Goldsmith and Wu provide context to understand the early vision of the internet as a borderless community espoused by May and Barlow. They then describe how governments began to pressure local intermediaries to restrict online content, debunking the claims of techno-utopians.

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