May 15, 2010
David Post on the state of the internet
Jerry Brito
Former Senior Research FellowDavid Post
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To speak with a scholar or learn more on this topic, visit our contact page.David Post, the I. Herman Stern Professor of Law at the Beasley School of Law at Temple University and author of In Search of Jefferson’s Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace, discusses the general state of the internet. He contrasts a decentralized Jeffersonian approach to the internet with a more centralized Hamiltonian one and also addresses netizenship, open vs. closed source, and online global relations.