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From Moore's Law to More's Utopia: The Candy Crushing of Internet Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 November 2016

CARL LANDAUER
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Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , December 2016 , pp. 1125 - 1146
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12 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is a private non-profit corporation initiated by US government responsible for much of the broad structural elements of the Internet, such as Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD) Top-Level Domain name system management, and root server system management.

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14 Ibid., at 31–50.

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26 Now set at 1.6 billion. ‘Facebook's Plan for Cheap, Global Access’, New York Times, 24 April 2016.

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34 The Financial Times found Google's restructuring of its venture fund newsworthy, ‘Google abandons European venture fund’, 11 December 2016. Regarding ‘disruption’, it ran a special section on 7 December 2015 on ‘Disruption & Technology’, if only four pages.

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39 Ibid.

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41 Ibid., at 133, citing Jillian C. York, ‘Policing Content in the Quasi-Public Square’ (2010), available at opennet.net/policing-content-quasi-public-sphere (accessed 24 April 2016). For a thoughtful analysis of free speech and the Internet, see A. Chander and U.P. Lê, ‘Free Speech’, (2015) 100 Iowa Law Review 501.

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48 Ibid.

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50 Ibid., at 90.

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59 Ibid.

60 Brown and Marsden observe about US privacy law: ‘At the other end of the scale, there is clearly less protection for individual privacy in the US legal system than in most other advanced economies. Outside the federal government, regulation is patchy, sector specific, and state-by-state, with limited individual rights and enforcement only under very specific circumstances by the FTC.’, Brown and Marsden, supra note 35, at 64. Nevertheless, they could have added that certain areas of key concern, such as medical, financial services, and educational records, come under specific federal rules. For a good overview of US privacy law, see T.J. Toohey, Understanding Privacy and Data Protection: What You Need to Know (2014).

61 Cohen-Almagor, supra note 3, at 222. Search engine optimization involves working algorithms used by search engines to order results, and businesses use specialists to enhance their sites’ moving up among the results.

62 Ibid.

63 Koukiadis, supra note 43, at 124, citing J. Habermas, Between Facts and Norms – Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (1995), 350.

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67 Ibid.

68 Ibid., at 84.

69 Mueller, supra note 11, at 265.

70 Ibid., at 68.

71 Lessig, supra note 7, at 324.

72 Mueller, supra note 11, at 67.

73 See, e.g., Chander, supra note 8, at 110. ‘Thus far, ICANN has chosen to apply its authority as a choke-point only on behalf of trademark holders.’ Few seem to note that trademarks are identified by specific classifications of goods and services. DeNardis is rare in acknowledging that ‘[i]n trademark law, it is possible for two registered trademarks to be identical, just registered as different classes of goods or services’. DeNardis, supra note 15, at 192. The classifications generally follow the 1957 Nice Agreement for the Classification of Goods and Services.

74 Lessig, supra note 7, at 308.

75 Ibid., at 309.

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77 Ibid., at 191.

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83 Ibid., at 210.

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85 Ibid.

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87 Ibid., at 40.

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91 Ibid., at 174.

92 Ibid., at 175.

93 Ibid.

94 Ibid., at 320.

95 Ibid.

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97 Ibid.

98 Ibid., at 288–9.

99 Ibid., at 312.

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103 Ibid., at 180.

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105 Ibid., at 446 (bolded in original).

106 Ibid., at 92 (bolded in original).

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109 Ibid., at 85.

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112 Ibid.

113 Ibid., at 106.

114 Ibid., at 5.

115 G. Debord, Society of the Spectacle, thesis 2 (1977; originally, La societé du spectacle, 1967).

116 Ibid., at thesis 30.

117 G. Debord, Comments on the Society of the Spectacle (trans. M, Imrie, 1990; originally Commentaires sur la societé du spectacle, 1988), 48. Debord on McLuhan is particularly interesting: ‘McLuhan himself, the spectacle's first apologist, who had seemed to be the most convinced imbecile of the century, changed his mind when he finally discovered in 1976 that “the pressure of the mass media leads to irrationality”, and it was becoming urgent to modify their usage.’ Ibid., at 33.

118 M. Poster, The Second Media Age (1995), at 70–1.

119 Ibid., at 36–7.

120 N. Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains (2010); S. Greenfield, Mind Change: How Digital Technologies are Leaving Their Mark on Our Brains (2015).

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124 Castells, supra note 104, at 34.

125 The Financial Times spoke in ‘Laying the Foundations’, of an online population of 400 million in 2015 projected to reach 600 million by 2020 in its article on Narenda Modi's proposed initiatives (15 January 2015); it analyzed the opportunities for smartphone expansion in sub-Saharan Africa (27 January 2016); and the New York Times reported Facebook's goal of tripling the size of its 1.6 billion user base, which envisioned revolutionizing the cost of technology (25 April 2016).

126 Goggin and McLellan (eds.), supra note 56.

127 See, e.g., Chander, supra note 8, at 179, 189.

128 Castells, supra note 104, at 3.

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130 As Castells notes, ‘most countries are creating a deeper digital divide’, Castells, supra note 30, at 262.

131 S. Kendzior, ‘Worlds Unknown: The Regions Ignored by Google Translate’, The Atlantic, 1 May 2012.

132 Goggin and McLelland (eds.), supra note 56, at 8.

133 Ibid., at 12.

134 Although there are Chinese keyboards developed in the 1980s that provide for the elements of characters, they are not used in mobile devices.

135 Kendzior, supra note 131.

136 Landauer, supra note 107, at 571–81 (‘Globalization without the Globe’).

137 Chander, supra note 8, at 59–86 (‘Eastern Entrepôt’).