Infrastructural power: State strategies for internet control

2025/05/20 by Juan Ortiz Freuler · 1 voice
Engineering · #ICT Impact and Policies

paper · pdf · doi:10.14763/2025.2.2009

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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.

Citations

• Weaponized Interdependence: How Global Economic Networks Shape State Coercion
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Discussions

• Ortiz Freuler, J. (2025). Infrastructural power: State strategies for internet control. Internet Policy Review, 14(2). doi.org/10.14763/202..., Available at SSRN: ssrn.com/abstract=526... [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]

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