The Public Sector and Content Regulation: Focussing on Pornography and Child Sexual Abuse Material

Ben Wagner

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-33513-1_4

The Public Sector and Content Regulation: Focussing on Pornography and Child Sexual Abuse Material

Ben Wagner^*

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Who decides what is normal and abnormal content? How is this process of regulating Internet content normalised? Restrictions of certain types of Internet content can only be understood in their specific historical context, as an evolution of regulatory practices and Internet technologies. That some types of Internet content are regulated and not others is not a technical or economic necessity. In order to study this phenomenon this chapter looks at public sector governance of Internet content in the UK, Germany and the US with a focus on pornography and child sexual abuse material. In conclusion it argues that answering that the regulation of Internet content is heavily dependent on state capacity to induce self-regulatory regimes on the private sector.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Global Free Expression - Governing the Boundaries of Internet Content
Publisher	Springer
Pages	63-95
Number of pages	33
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-33513-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33513-1_4
Publication status	Published - 2016
Externally published	Yes

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Name	Law, Governance and Technology Series
Volume	28
ISSN (Print)	2352-1902
ISSN (Electronic)	2352-1910

Keywords

Child Pornography
Child Sexual Abuse
Content Regulation
Federal Communication Commission
Internet Service Provider

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Global Free Expression - Governing the Boundaries of Internet Content. Springer, 2016. p. 63-95 (Law, Governance and Technology Series; Vol. 28).

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