Internet suverenitet sa kineskim karakteristikama
Internet Sovereignty with Chinese Characteristics

Summary/Abstract: The development of the modern information and communication techno logies, as well as the increase of the number of internet users, has helped to intensify the debate on internet governance at international forums. on the one hand, the United States insists on the Multi-stakeholder internet governance model, while on the other hand, China is more loudly advoca ting the ”internet sovereignty” model – a multilateral approach in which all countries of the world freely choose their own cyber-development way, with no state having a position to apply cyber hegemony. This model certainly came under criticism in the West, because it was designated as a platform for empowering control and violating civil liberties. But, on the other hand, we are witnessing that certain Western states are also working to establish greater control in their own cyber space, and therefor their critique of the Chinese model is less convincing. Finaly, China, as the first ”internet sove reign” state, has reach so far in the domain of technical and legislative im provement of its own cyber space, that it is difficult to imagine that the cu rrent situation will return to its initial position, especially if we consider the growth of political and economic power of this state. We have come to the conclusion that in the future global debate on internet governance, the ar guments will be increasingly on the Chinese side, and that a new era of cyber sovereign states is ahead of us.

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