Infrastructural power: State strategies for internet control

This article explores how governments, shifting from an anti-interventionist stance and views of regulatory impossibility, are embracing an infrastructural turn through strategies that include hijacking, and localising the "points of control" of the internet.

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Internet Policy Review
Published
2025-05-20
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https://doi.org/10.14763/2025.2.2009
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ICT Impact and Policies
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Infrastructural power: State strategies for internet control

Juan Ortiz Freuler
Internet Policy Review
ICT Impact and Policies
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Infrastructural power: State strategies for internet control

Juan Ortiz Freuler
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Abstract

This article explores how governments, shifting from an anti-interventionist stance and views of regulatory impossibility, are embracing an infrastructural turn through strategies that include hijacking, and localising the "points of control" of the internet.

Internet Policy ReviewVol. 14(2)
Southern University (BD)
Openalex Percentile: Top 85%
ICT Impact and Policies
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