It is really a network of networks rather than one network, and cyberspace doesn’t have U.S. geographical boundaries. You can’t stop people from sending any information in and out of the country. You can impose responsibility on them, but whether you can hold them responsible depends on how things are structured.
Predictor: Casser, Karen
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article in CQ Researcher, Charles Clark quotes Karen Casser, an attorney with Fletcher, Heald and Hildreth in Arlington, Va. Clark writes: ”Can the Internet be regulated? ‘Yes, but to a limited extent,’ says Karen L. Casser, general counsel at Fletcher, Heald and Hildreth an Arlington, Va., telecommunications and technology firm. ‘But it is really a network of networks rather than one network, and cyberspace doesn’t have U.S. geographical boundaries. You can’t stop people from sending any information in and out of the country. You can impose responsibility on them, but whether you can hold them responsible depends on how things are structured.'”
Date of prediction: June 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Controversial Issues
Subtopic: Jurisdiction/Control
Name of publication: CQ Researcher
Title, headline, chapter name: Regulating the Internet
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/search.php
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