Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1997
Abstract
Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of the Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
By linking with the Internet, we don't mean absolute freedom of information. I think there is a general understanding about this. If you go through customs, you have to show your passport. It's the same with management of information. There is no contradiction at all between the development of telecommunications infrastructure and the exercise of state sovereignty.
Will cyberspace exercise its own sovereignty? Does it do so already?
Disciplines
International Law | Internet Law | Law | Science and Technology Law
Recommended Citation
Tim Wu,
Cyberspace Sovereignty? – The Internet and the International System,
10
Harv. J. L. & Tech.
647
(1997).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/2227
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