Featuring a look at whether the internet can and should be regulated, and three case studies of regulation from around the world: the 'Great Firewall of China', the Christchurch Call, and Australian Mandatory Data Retention. The episode also engages with JP Barlow's thirty-year-old Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace. 

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Sources discussed: 

Barlow, J. P. (1996). A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace. https://homes.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html 

Barlow, J. P. (2014). A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow. https://vimeo.com/111576518 

Christchurch Call. (n.d.). Retrieved 23 January 2023, from https://www.christchurchcall.com/assets/Documents/Christchurch-Call-full-text-English.pdf

Galperin, E. (2015, April 7). Data Retention Law Passes in Australia, but the Fight Isn’t Over. Electronic Frontier Foundation. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/data-retention-law-passes-australia-fight-isnt-over

Greenberg, A. (2016, February 8). It’s been 20 years since John Perry Barlow declared cyberspace independence. Wired. https://www.wired.com/2016/02/its-been-20-years-since-this-man-declared-cyberspace-independence/

Morrison, A. H. (2009). An impossible future: John Perry Barlow’s ‘Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace’. New Media & Society, 11(1–2), 53–71. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444808100161