![]() ![]() This second edition, or Version 2.0, has been prepared through the author’s wiki, a web site that allows readers to edit the text, making this the first reader-edited revision of a popular book. Since its original publication, this seminal book has earned the status of a minor classic. In this realm, code is the most significant form of law, and it is up to lawyers, policymakers, and especially citizens to decide what values that code embodies. ![]() These choices are all about architecture: about what kind of code will govern cyberspace, and who will control it. We can-we must-choose what kind of cyberspace we want and what freedoms we will guarantee. Under the influence of commerce, cyberspace is becoming a highly regulable space, where behavior is much more tightly controlled than in real space. ![]() That code can create a place of freedom-as the original architecture of the Net did-or a place of oppressive control. It is not in the nature of cyberspace to be unregulable cyberspace has no “nature.” It only has code-the software and hardware that make cyberspace what it is. Code, first published in 2000, argues that this belief is wrong. There’s a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated-that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government’s (or anyone else’s) control. ![]()
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