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Community, Space and Online Censorship Scott Beattie

Community, Space and Online Censorship By Scott Beattie

Community, Space and Online Censorship by Scott Beattie


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This book compares the Australian solution to internet regulation, a set of laws which have been criticised as being both draconian and ineffectual, to major regulatory systems in the UK and US, and will be a valuable guide for anyone interested in internet theory generally.

Community, Space and Online Censorship Summary

Community, Space and Online Censorship: Regulating Pornotopia by Scott Beattie

Internet censorship is a controversial topic - while the media periodically sounds alarms at the dangers of online life, the uncontrollable nature of the internet makes any kind of pervasive regulatory control impossible. This book compares the Australian solution, a set of laws which have been criticized as being both draconian and ineffectual, to major regulatory systems in the UK and US and understanding what drives them. The 'impossibility' of internet regulation opens deeper issues - what do we mean by regulation and how do we judge the certainty and effectiveness of law? These questions lead to an exploration of the theories of legal geography which provide tools to understand and evaluate regulatory practices. The book will be a valuable guide for academics, students and policy makers working in media and censorship law, those from a civil liberties interest and people interested in internet theory generally.

Community, Space and Online Censorship Reviews

'...a fresh approach to understanding the processes of moral regulation in secular, pluralist, states. This is no mean feat. Focussing on the censorship of internet-delivered "porn", Beattie identifies metasomic processes whereby regulatory regimes persist over time despite radically changing justifications. This work offers unique insights. A richly thoughtful study, it is grounded in careful attention to state practice and interpreted through the lenses of contemporary social theory, spatiality, regulatory fortressing, and critical human geography.' W. Wesley Pue, University of British Columbia, Canada

About Scott Beattie

Scott Beattie is a lecturer at the Victoria University School of Law and Co-director of the Communications Law Centre, a media law public interest body. His background is in university education and public policy work and he has worked in law reform both as a researcher and as a consultant. He has published a number of books on Media and Communications law.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Classification Refused; Chapter 2 Protect me from what I want: Censorship and Internet Classification; Chapter 3 Co-regulation and Symbolic Policy: The Broadcasting Services Amendment (Online Services) Act 1999; Chapter 4 Taking the Red Pill: Cyberspace, Jurispace and the Architecture of Regulation; Chapter 5 Sexx Laws: The Spatial Strategies of Censorship; Chapter 6 Censorship, Power and Regulatory Communities;

Additional information

NPB9780754673088
9780754673088
0754673081
Community, Space and Online Censorship: Regulating Pornotopia by Scott Beattie
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2009-06-28
284
N/A
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