If there is any place that is constructed, cyberspace is it" (p. "If there is any place where nature has no rule, it is in cyberspace. Lessig's goal is to increase the awareness that we are all directly responsible for the creation and maintenance of a cyberspace which promotes the core values - freedom of action and of speech, anonymity, and privacy, among others - that we cherish in real life. The author goes to great length to explain their characteristics, dynamics, interactions, and possible outcomes. With this point as a cornerstone, Lessig takes the reader through an exposition of the different kinds of what he calls "regulators," that is, the shaping forces of cyberspace. In it, Lawrence Lessig, a law professor at Harvard University, magnificently voices the need for changes in the imagining of the Internet and cyberspace, from a naturally and inherently uncontrollable, self-organizing, decentralized, and free space - "the Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" 1 - to a place with no Nature or Essence where user intervention is always necessary: "the Net does not take care of itself" (p. Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace is one of those books. From time to time a book is published that makes clear the changing metaphors of an age.
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