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Froomkin: "The Empire Strikes Back"
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- Subject: Froomkin: "The Empire Strikes Back"
- From: Thomas Roessler <roessler@guug.de>
- Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 08:34:54 +0100
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http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/empire.htm
DRAFT. This is a revised version of a presentation at a symposium at
Chicago-Kent Law School, March 13, 1998. It will be published in the
Chi-Kent Law Review symposium issue on the Internet and Legal Theory.
...
This focus on the state is not a coincidence or an error. It reflects
something real about the world we still live in: few if any
nation-states are in any hurry to relinquish their freedom of
manoeuver (read "control" or "power") to decentralizing,
democratizing, even anarchistic, forces such as the Internet -- at
least not without a fight. And, as I shall argue in Part III, the
remedy that states find comes most easily to hand is such strong
medicine that it may be worse than the disease.
...
--
Thomas Roessler, FITUG e.V.
http://www.fitug.de/