Milton Mueller on internet governance

On the podcast this week, Milton Mueller, Professor and Director of the Telecommunications Network Management Program at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies, discusses his new book, Networks and States: The Global Politics of Internet Governance. Mueller begins by talking about Wikileaks' recent leak of diplomatic cables, using the incident to elaborate on the meaning of internet governance. He notes the distinction between traditional centralized systems of authority and peer-produced, distributed governance that rules much of cyberspace. He also discusses global democracy, contradictions in cyber libertarian views, judicial checks and balances on the internet, and future issues in internet governance.

Related Links


"Mueller's Networks and States = Classical Liberalism for the Information Age", by Adam Thierer
"How to Discredit Net Neutrality", by Mueller
"'Networks and States' at the Internet Governance Forum", by Mueller

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