The Internet, Information and the Culture of Regulatory Change: A Modern Renaissance
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Dic-* 304 million people have Internet access-45% are in the United States and Canada;' * nearly one-third of U.S. households are regular Internet users; * in 1998, the "Internet economy" generated over $300 billion in total revenue in the United States alone; * "commercial activity" on the Internet is expected to reach $100 billion in revenues in 1999; * North American retailers generated $14.9 billion in online sales in 1998 and expect at least $36 billion in 1999 (a 145% increase); 0 Internet traffic continues to increase-visitors to retail sites rose 300% in 1998 and online retail orders grew by 200%.2Of course, this kind of data changes from month to month, but updates of both actual and projected data consistently show ever-increasing commercial activity.Out of this ever-increasing growth has come the desire for regulation and application of traditional legal notions to a very new paradigm.Opponents of Internet regulation proclaim that neither the law nor its mechanisms of enforcement could hope to keep pace with the technological change of the Internet.True enough, the very infrastructure, applications and variations on content (and the legal issues that come with those variations) have changed greatly since the Internet was developed by the Advanced Research
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".