Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World

  Author:    Jack Goldsmith, Tim Wu
  ISBN:    0195340647
  Sales Rank:    287670
  Published:    2008-06-30
  Publisher:    Oxford University Press, USA
  # Pages:    240
  Binding:    Paperback
  Avg. Rating:    5.0 based on 12 reviews
  Used Offers:    10 from $10.00
  Amazon Price:    $14.35
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09-29-08 4 (NA)
(Hide Review...)  Interesting book
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A book based on facts, but written to be read as fiction. Once you start, you don't leave it. Makes you smile, and makes you think about new economy and what governments can and should do.
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09-21-08 4 (NA)
(Hide Review...)  Rompiendo ilusiones sobre internet
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La imagen de internet se debate entre un estereotipo mediático popular que habla de su ilimitada capacidad autónoma y de recursos, frente a la realidad de las limitaciones y exclusiones con las que tropieza día a día que cada vez son toleradas y alimentadas como excusa necesaria para un desarrollo tecnológico, económico y social.

En este contexto comentaba Juan Freire hace poco:

"Internet ofrece un espacio virtual de libertad, autónomo de las autoridades del mundo físico."

Y mientras el deseo de un espacio virtual libre y autónomo pueda ser genuino no hay nada más alejado de la realidad vigente. El espacio de Internet está sujeto cada vez más a normas, regulaciones, fronteras, que permiten la expansión de la herramienta pero también su adaptación a realidades locales. Las cuales desafortunadamente no tienen en cuenta únicamente los gustos o necesidades de un tipo de usuarios sino que se amoldan a necesidades de gobiernos o intereses privados generando prácticas represivas y restrictivas del uso de Internet. Es así Internet la que se adapta y no el gobierno de China acepta la libertad de expressión. Por ejemplo al punto de que la información facilitada por gigantes como Yahoo es la responsable de poner a disidentes políticos tras rejas.

Si hay algo que hace bien el libro de Jack Goldsmith y Tim Wu, "Who Controls the Internet?, Illusions of a Borderless World" es eso, mostrar la historia de Internet y su relación con el mundo físico, las barreras regionales, nacionales y como se está modificando el desarrollo de esta comunicación cada vez más para acomodarse a imposiciones desde arriba y no responder necesariamente a los deseos de la comunidad de usurarios. El libro es muy recomendable en su análisis de la concepción de Internet y desarrollos y casos legales en los últimos años. Algo quizás no tan novedoso para aquellos que lleven inmersos en estos debates un tiempo. Pero en particular es útil para señalar a defensores simplistas de una globalización capitalista homogeneizadora como Thomas Friedman. Desafortunadamente el libro en sus conclusiones tiene una vertiente conservadora, y mientras Friedman es un conservador global e imperial, Goldsmith y Wu muestran un conservadurismo digital que defiende y anima las restricciones regionales sin ningún pudor e incluso desprecia el pensamiento de muchos de los impulsores de internet que buscaban un espacio sin fronteras, libre y diverso.

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When keeping up to date with news and stories about the internet you'll just find a compact, but not to detailed summary of it all.
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When keeping up to date with news and stories about the internet you'll just find a compact, but not to detailed summary of it all.
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