Chapter 18. Law
The mills of justice grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.
—FBI proverb after Friedrich von Logau
In his address to the first World Wide Web Conference in CERN in 1994, Tim Berners-Lee described the Web project as “the chance to build a whole new world.” Today, the Web is no longer a frontier town but a world inhabited by a billion people who use it to obtain news and information; to communicate with their family, friends, and business partners; to buy, sell, and advertise; and a hundred other uses. The Web is a world of people, not technology, and no human society has endured without law and order.
The law is like a massive siege gun used to batter the walls of a baroque fortress. It is a powerful weapon, but one that ...
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