Who controls the Internet and how is it regulated?

1. Who Controls the Web?
The Battle for Control of the Internet

2. Strict regulations in China …

3. Everyone attempts to regulate
the internet, but laws vary

5. A Digital Cold War?

6. Average internet user is caught in crossfire…

7. Society & business will suffer until
we reach international agreement

8. Who controls the Internet?

11. OMG, the Internet is awesome!

12. Internet led to globalization

13. Internet spread like wildfire

14. Nations wanted control of
powerful new tool

15. Models for
Internet Governance
• Self Governance
• Neo-Mercantilism
• Culturalism
• Gatekeeper
• Globalism

17. There’s no dispute that a sovereign state may
create and enforce laws concerning activities
within its borders.

18. … But the internet is a cross-border
space. So whose laws apply?

19. Disputes
result and
don’t get
resolved…

20. Consequences
The economy suffers as businesses are less likely to invest and
innovate due to legal uncertainties. Dot coms also waste
valuable resources handling international legal disputes. And
some users may find themselves facing legal claims for
activities that are legal in the users’ country. While others
must surf the web without any certainty that redress is
available for harms they might suffer online.

21. Towards a global standard
Courts have struggled to develop a satisfactory
solution, yet no progress has been made toward a
uniform global standard of Internet jurisdiction. Here
are some common proposals…

22. Proposals
I. Universal set of laws
II. Global jurisdiction test
III. Filtering & e-Borders
IV. Terms of Service provisions
V. Do nothing

24. About the Presenter
Mark Grabowski is a professor at Adelphi
University in New York, where he teaches
internet law & ethics. His research has been
published in books and academic journals,
including Harvard's law journal. His publications
have been translated into Korean and
Romanian. He's been mentioned in The
Economist, The Guardian, The Los Angeles
Times and other media outlets. Previously, he
worked as a journalist and as a lawyer.