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The Internet and the Project of Communications Law

Susan P. Crawford
Univ. of Michigan Law School


February 11, 2007


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The internet offers the potential for economic growth stemming from online human communications, but recent industry and government actions have disfavored these possibilities by treating the internet like a content-delivery supply chain. I recommend that the internet be at the center of communications policy and that laws affecting internet access be evaluated in terms of whether they further U.S. economic growth by facilitating increased emergent online diversity. The article criticizes the nearly exclusive focus of communications policy on the private economic success of infrastructure and "application" providers, and suggests that communications policy be focused on facilitating communications themselves.

Keywords: cyberlaw, internet, communications law, complex systems, economic growth theory, network neutrality

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Date posted: February 14, 2007 ; Last revised: February 14, 2007

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Crawford, Susan P. , The Internet and the Project of Communications Law (February 11, 2007). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=962594


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Susan P. Crawford (Contact Author)
Univ. of Michigan Law School ( email )
625 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1215
United States

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