4 Power-Laws of the Internet 8 4.1 Rank power-law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.2 Degree power-law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4.3 Eigen power-law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 4.4 The doubts and settlement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 4.5 Network analysis before power-laws . . . . . . . . . . ...

As the internet media has become more widely used over time, public opinions formed by internet discussions affect political and social issues more critically. While the internet space guarantees equal status for every participant and equal opportunity in terms of freedom of speech based on anonymity, baseless rumors, personal defamation, and privacy invasion against particular individuals and ...

The clash between the borderless Internet and the geographically structured legal landscape is almost universally adopted as the starting point for discussions of Internet jurisdiction issues. This clash is important, but to fully appreciate its implications we need to proceed far into the territory of jurisprudence. Here, I draw attention to how three presumptions that underpin all legal syste...

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