Dear America, Let me begin with a confession. I am a lawyer, and lawyers are the reason you have never read to the end of anything about internet regulation. We write as if the reader were another lawyer, or a judge, or a wall. I am going to try not to do that here, because […]
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This is chapter 2 of Regulated Without Representation, a series by internet law solicitor Yair Cohen on how Britain regulates the internet and who pays for it. New here? Start with the introduction. The previous chapter is here. In the spring of 1765 the British Parliament had a problem that will sound familiar to any
This is chapter 6 of Regulated Without Representation, a series by internet law solicitor Yair Cohen on how Britain regulates the internet and who pays for it. New here? Start with the introduction. The previous chapter is here. Somewhere in Whitehall, the district of London where the government departments sit, there is a spreadsheet. On
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