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Four Phases of Internet Regulation
- Social Research: An International Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 77, Number 3, Fall 2010
- pp. 981-996
- 10.1353/sor.2010.0021
- Article
- Additional Information
The four phases of Internet regulation are the "open Internet" period, from the network's birth through about 2000; "access denied," through about 2005; "access controlled," through the present day (2010); and "access contested," the phase into which we are entering.