- From: Barry Caplan <bcaplan@i18n.com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 10:28:06 -0800
- To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>, tex@XenCraft.com
- Cc: www-international@w3.org (WWW International)
At 01:04 PM 12/4/2002 -0500, John Cowan wrote: >> However, to keep the focus on the web, having many links broken on the >> web by blocking, without awareness or a process for rectification, >> implies then that the "single application" model doesn't work. It will >> be even more problematic for web services. > >Transborder data flows are a very political and legal subject with an >extensive literature, to which I would refer you if I knew anything about it. >(That is the phrase, though, so try googling for "transborder data flows".) >Suffice it to say that many governments have concerns about both incoming >and outgoing data, not excepting Western democracies. The proper and definitive place to begin here is by searching "Lawrence Lessig". In particular I recommend in the highest possible terms both his books "code" and "the future of ideas", both available in paperback now. He has a blog somewhere, I will leave finding it an exercise to the reader. All discussions about this topic, and they are legion, are framed by Lessig's presentations. Barry Caplan www.i18n.com
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