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Internet & Society: The Technologies and Politics of Control (Spring 2019)
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The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain, Yale University Press (2008) (Sections on perfect enforcement and tethered appliances).

Read 104-126

John Bowers

When rules are defined – and violated – in digital space, it is often possible to implement them in the architecture of a system such that they become self-enforcing (code is law!). This “perfect enforcement” of regulations can be enormously useful in some cases, but might also prove to be too heavy a touch. What might be the costs of perfect enforcement in terms of generativity? How might the decentralized web inhibit perfect enforcement?

The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain, Yale University Press (2008) (Sections on perfect enforcement and tethered appliances).

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