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The Internet is not regulated by a central authority, but instead by a plethora of institutions involving numerous stakeholders. Internet governance can be understood as a field that not only pertains to infrastructure regulation, but also to other legal questions such as copyright, hate speech, cyber-bulling, data protection, and others.
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Hanke, P.C. (2019). Internet Governance. In: Marciano, A., Ramello, G.B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7753-2_268
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