Digital Diplomacy
Andrea G
Moisés Naím / Worldlink
The entrepreneurs and technological visionaries that unleashed the digital revolution were not contemptuous of government - they just ignored it. During the heady, early years of the Internet boom, the dominant view in Silicon Valley was not only that cyberspace did not need government, but that it could be largely immune from its interference. The common wisdom was that all it took to avoid any governmental regulation was to move the servers to another, less intrusive jurisdiction. For the dotcom pioneers, being a libertarian was not even an ideological choice; it was the instinct bred by working with the Internet.
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