Abstract
In this chapter, the authors examine if internet users are against any kind of internet regulation policy or not. In their endeavour, they begin with a literature review of older related surveys, and then proceed by presenting their UK-related survey that was conducted in 2007-2008, focusing on the UK's IRS (i.e., BT's CleanFeed). The United Kingdom CleanFeed is an ideal case study as it was the first time that an internet regulation system had been implemented to such an extent in a Western democracy. The authors' UK survey managed to collect initial valuable data that formed their further survey-based research in Greece, Germany, Russia, India, Kosovo, and Cyprus. Last, the authors discuss the need for regularly measuring internet users' opinions about the subject.
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In this chapter, the authors examine if Internet users are against any kind of Internet regulation policy or not. In their endeavour, they begin with a literature review of older related surveys and then proceed by presenting their UK-related survey that was conducted in 2007-2008, focusing on the UK’s IRS, i.e. BT’s CleanFeed.
The United Kingdom CleanFeed is an ideal case study as it was the first time that an Internet Regulation System had been implemented to such an extent in a western democracy. Authors’ UK survey managed to collect initial valuable data that formed their further survey-based research in Greece, Germany, Russia, India, Kosovo, and Cyprus (see chapters 5 to 11).
Last, the authors discuss the need for regularly measuring Internet user's opinion about the subject.