![]() The proper way to guarantee liberty is to limit the role of government and to prevent government from acting foolishly with regard to the Internet.The Internet does not lend itself to regulation by governments.Although there would be lots of heated discussion and no unanimity on any single belief, you might find a majority could get behind something like the following four premises: Imagine that you could somehow assemble the pioneers of the Internet and the first political theorists of cyberspace in a room and poll them as to what beliefs they have in common. It’s interesting to view this review through the lens of the past 20 years of history that we now have lived through. Given the importance of these issues today, we’re republishing a moderately updated version of Godwin’s original 1999 review. ![]() When the original book was published, in 1999, Mike Godwin wrote a review for a long defunct journal called E-Commerce Law Weekly. Both versions are classics and important pieces of the history of the internet - and are especially interesting to look at now that issues of how much “code” is substituting as “law” have become central to so many debates. A few years later, he put out a very updated version called Code 2.0. ![]() Twenty years ago, Larry Lessig published the original version of his book Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. ![]()
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