
406 Cyberpower
to govern. It is no longer an enclosed, private space, but rather a public area
subject to the authority and control of individual states within the connes of
their national sovereignty and in accordance with international agreements.
Constraints will thus be applied progressively in order to protect the Internet
user from himself and from others. The analogy with the Highway Code is
trivial, but it nevertheless illustrates the phenomenon: in the early days of the
motorcar, a code was unnecessary because of the small number of vehicles
on the roads, and the few motorists could manage the roads with a mixture of
courtesy and common ...