Who Controls the Internet?

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You will be glad you read this. - Rated
When i started reading this book i panicked thinking i was in a bit deep-and punching above my weight.But after switching on the reading afterburners i started to get into it.
The book illustrates that yes!-there are real people out their in cyber space with their hands on the controls of this massive network...Hooray!,i actually found it very comforting that this beast can be tamed by Government and friendly,hippy,bearded engineers.
I am very pleased that i read the whole book, and being a blogger the information in the book has given me a lot more confidence and understanding about how Google works.
The book is a good read-but,you can put it down,it can be a bit taxing on the brain cells.However when i completed it i reworded them with a beer or two,ha ha.

Refreshing - Rated
This is a competent work that challenges the oft-repeated cliché of the "Internet without borders". Written in an approachable style, it analyses a number of cases where governments, from the United States, through Europe to China and Australia, have successfully managed to control the Internet. Sometimes, as in China, this was accompanied by an unprecedented investment in IT infrastructure, demonstrating that intervention in the developing world, however problematic, does not always equal lack of innovation.

The authors give an accurate picture of various modes of intervention, and of their outcomes but if their book has a shortcoming, it is probably in its underestimation of the very real threat of government intervention in cyberspace. Although, they have successfully argued that intervention may sometimes be necessary (as in the case of eBay) they never provide the elements of a proper governance model.

Highly recommended.