Lessig's Law

Group Project

Lessigs Law

#1

Group Members

Topic

• We will cover China, it’s intricacies, and how it

relates to Lessig’s model.

Law

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Great Firewall of China

At least twelve different government bureaus

registration requirements

Penalties

Article 19

Markets

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Panjiayuan Jiuhuo Schichang (Beijing)

Kashgar Sunday Bazaar

Khotan Sunday Market

South Bund Fabric Market (Shanghai)

Yide Road Wholesale Markets (Guangzhou)

Temple Street Night Market

Social Norms

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Reputation & Honor

Collectivism

Etiquette

Peaceful Interactions

Candor

Censorship

Architecture

• China is formulating its own model of Internet

governance

• Capable of eliminating, controlling challenges from

internal or external influences

• Computer code incentives by legislature will control

Online behavior

• Influences of the choice of code dictates authority

and control over Internet infrastructure

• Chinese Communist Law licenses and regulates

every aspect of user interaction on the Internet

• Grass-root style users are pushing CCP control to

loosen Internet restrictions of Internet use

Summary

The Laws in China are very strict when it comes to

information sharing by way of technology. Chinese law

determines what information is available on the internet.

The Chinese market is very traditional. It is important for

the Chinese to continue practicing old ways of the past, despite

technological advances.

In China, one’s reputation reflects on the individual’s

family. Although globalization and technology can offer a more

efficient way to express unconventional ideas, if someone were

to express those ideas, there could be consequences for the

speaker as well as their families.

China’s Internet architecture is highly and dogmatically

regulated. Internet users’ are individually licensed and all access

controlled. Websites are extremely filtered at multiple choke

points, limiting access to...