A Spanish policeman looking at a computer screen during an investigation against child pornography.

Who Controls the Internet?

January 05, 2007

The Internet began as a digital Wild West, lawless and immune from market or government control. Columbia law professor Tim Wu explains not only how important national borders have proven to be, but also why policing them might not be so bad.


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