Illusions of a Borderless World is a 2006 book by Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu that assesses efforts to control the Internet.
The first follows the early development of the internet, including the free vision of articulated by Julian Dibbell and John Perry Barlow as well as the work of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
At the same time, various governments have used pressure to restrict internet content, shown through examples such as Google de-listing Operation Clambake in response to a Digital Millennium Copyright Act filing by the Church of Scientology; Saudi Arabian filters blocking websites containing pornography, gambling, interfaith dialogue, and discussions about how to circumvent filtering; the neutralization of HavenCo; and Chinese censorship of the internet and arrests of dissidents who contribute to it.
Discussion closes with "Vice, Virtues, the Future", a section that begins with a case study of eBay within the context of government protections and law enforcement.
They speculate that cultural and political differences may result in a "technological Cold War", wherein the United States, European Union, and China develop their own competitive Internet platforms.