How law and computer science can work together to improve the information society
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posted on 2023-06-09, 09:40 authored by Chris MarsdenIn this column, I explore the various means by which lawyers can be helped by computer scientists to stop the (inevitable) collateral damage to innovation when the unstoppable force of legislation hits the irresistible innovation of the Internet. I will explore some current controversies (fake news, Net neutrality, platform regulation) from an international perspective. The conclusion is familiar: lawyers and computer scientists need each other to prevent a disastrous retrenchment toward splintered national-regional intranets. To avoid that, we need to be intellectually pragmatic in pursuing what may be a mutually disagreeable aim: minimal legislative reform to achieve co-regulation using the most independent expert advice. The alternatives are to allow libertarian advocates to so enrage politicians that severe over-regulation results.
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Communications of the ACMISSN
0001-0782Publisher
ACM PressExternal DOI
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1Volume
61Page range
29-31Department affiliated with
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2018-01-09Usage metrics
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