Why the Net should grow up
Article Abstract:
The Internet has expanded at an amazing rate during the 1990s, with the number of people using it doubling every year. For the most part, however, it has not been a commercial success, and it is increasingly being attacked. Governments must decide what regulations should be applied.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1996
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Let the digital age bloom
Article Abstract:
The Group of 7 recently convened to discuss deregulation and competition in the information industry. The G7 must realize that technological advances will always outpace their ability to regulate and that regulation will distort the way markets develop.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1995
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The Internet's new borders
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Governments are increasingly using new technology to impose local rules on the Internet. There are fears that 'geolocation' and filtering technologies could undermine the Internet's ethos of free speech and lack of frontiers.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 2001
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