Myth and Reality: Too Little or Too Much Freedom for Mainland Netizens The cyberspace has been likened by many to be the “wild wild West,” unruly to be tamed. Yet the great firewall of the Chinese Government has pinned down and filtered many freewheeling minds and spirits. When we are confronted with the Orwellian nightmare [...]

Johan Lagerkvist, Research Fellow, The Swedish Institute of International Affairs- Norms and the Legitimacy of Law in China: the Case of ‘Black Internet Cafes’ The central directives from Beijing regulating Internet cafes that have come in the wake of the Internet cafe fire of 2002 are, like many other central government laws in China, inconsistently [...]

SESSION 7: Law, Regulation and Governance Moderator: Peter Yu, Professor & Director, Intellectual Property Law Center, Drake University Law School Discussant: Doreen Weisenhaus, Director of the Media Law Project & Assistant Professor, Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong Olivier Arifon, Assistant Professor, Robert Schuman University / CERIME laboratory, Strasbourg France. “Regulation [...]