Complexity and Internet regulation

Complexity and Internet RegulationAndrés Guadamuz

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Apologies

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Internet regulation theories

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Cyber Libertarianism“The Internet changes everything!”

The Internet cannot / should not be regulated.

Cyber-optimism.

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Code is LawArchitecture regulates online environments.

Norms can be built into the architecture.

Technocracy?

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New Cyber-conservatism

“The Internet doesn’t change everything with respect to how governmental authority regulates online environments.”

Governmental control is both possible (and desirable).

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Choke-pointsControl the access points: ISPs, DNS, country backbone.

Gateways, intermediaries, gate-keepers.

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Anarchy in the UK(and everywhere else)

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Complex networks

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The Internet as distributed architecture

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Random v scale-free networks

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The Internet is scale-free network

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Some Characteristics of scale-free networks

Self-organizing (favours fitness peaks)

Long-tails (Pareto distributions)

Resilient (but vulnerable to cascading failures)

Small world connections (six degrees of separation)

Centrality: some hubs can be more important if they have a central role in the network.

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Let’s look back at Internet Regulation theories

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Anarchy-LibertarianismResilient architectures

P2P and botnets are scale-free networks

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CodeSelf-organization.Self-similar, fractal: At practically all levels of granularity, the Web looks the same. Encoded organization?

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Conservatism - gatekeeping

While Internet is supposed to be distributed, it is increasingly centralised.

The only way to control the Web is through central control

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The centrality menace

Consumers sleepwalking into more central servicesResilience is replaced with control and vulnerability

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Concluding...

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Is it over yet?

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