The document discusses how political activity has traditionally focused on local levels first, extending to national and international spheres only when the activity being regulated crossed jurisdictional boundaries. However, the information revolution is inherently global as "cyberplace" is divided non-geographically, with domain suffixes like .edu, .org, and .com not indicating geographic locations. Even country suffixes in web addresses do not guarantee the person being contacted is in that jurisdiction.
The document discusses how political activity has traditionally focused on local levels first, extending to national and international spheres only when the activity being regulated crossed jurisdictional boundaries. However, the information revolution is inherently global as "cyberplace" is divided non-geographically, with domain suffixes like .edu, .org, and .com not indicating geographic locations. Even country suffixes in web addresses do not guarantee the person being contacted is in that jurisdiction.
The document discusses how political activity has traditionally focused on local levels first, extending to national and international spheres only when the activity being regulated crossed jurisdictional boundaries. However, the information revolution is inherently global as "cyberplace" is divided non-geographically, with domain suffixes like .edu, .org, and .com not indicating geographic locations. Even country suffixes in web addresses do not guarantee the person being contacted is in that jurisdiction.
Traditionally, political activity has focused first at the local level,
only extending to national and international spheres as the activity being regulated escaped jurisdictional boundaries. The contemporary information revolution, however, is inherently global, since cyberplace is divided on a nongeographical basis. The suffixes edu, org, and com are not geographical; and even where a country suffix appears in an address, there is no guarantee that the person being reached actually resides in that jurisdiction.